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Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> java-check-environment |
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> Running it, I got the message everything would be fine, but after uninstalling |
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> Sun's 1.4 JDK, Portage told me it'll be still needed. So after a bit package |
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> masking and uninstalling |
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Did you read the email? The the new java-check-environment is not in yet |
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and doesn't the news item say that 1.4 might still be needed? |
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> dev-java/sun-jdk:1.4 |
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> =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4* |
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> virtual/jdk:1.4 |
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> virtual/jre:1.4 |
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> I got |
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> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge |
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> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. |
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> (dependency required by "dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.27" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4-r2" [installed]) |
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> (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) |
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> and after looking at the tomcat-servlet-api ebuild I finally found that |
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> setting a java5 use flag and re-emerging the ebuild would be required, et |
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> voila... |
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We don't want to turn on java5 use flag by default because of |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161622 |
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Any way in your case the user is expected to decide that he still needs |
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1.4 and leave it installed. |
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> It's really great that the Java team managed to convert all packages, but I do |
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> not call the above procedure user friendly. ;) |
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Well nothing breaks if you don't do anything. Guess that should be |
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reflected better in the news item. You will just have extra stuff in |
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your $PATH most likely etc. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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