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From: Eddy Mulyono <eddymulyono@××××.com>
To: gentoo-java@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Question about Sun-Jdk 1.4.2.10
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:27:21
Message-Id: 67357fc10511281526s1cff1f8bg5229e39009cd4b0a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-java] Question about Sun-Jdk 1.4.2.10 by Tomasz Buchert
1 On 11/28/05, Tomasz Buchert <thinred@××.pl> wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 > I'm new in Gentoo and new in Java. I have already emerged Blackdown JDK
4 > but I'd like to emerge Sun JDK too. And here the problem begins.
5 > I'm not interested in JDK 1.5 (it's considered unstable as far as I
6 > know). I believe that 1.4 will be enough for a novice. On my portage
7 > this package is masked. Is it risky to emerge it? If it is not why it is
8 > masked?
9
10 At the time of this writing (2005-Nov-28 15:23 Pacific),
11 sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 marked unstable/testing (~x86), not masked.
12
13 This usually happens to new versions. They come into Portage as
14 testing. If no bugs are filed after certain period, they go into
15 stable.
16
17 Hope that helps,
18
19 -Eddy
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