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On 11/28/05, Tomasz Buchert <thinred@××.pl> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm new in Gentoo and new in Java. I have already emerged Blackdown JDK |
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> but I'd like to emerge Sun JDK too. And here the problem begins. |
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> I'm not interested in JDK 1.5 (it's considered unstable as far as I |
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> know). I believe that 1.4 will be enough for a novice. On my portage |
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> this package is masked. Is it risky to emerge it? If it is not why it is |
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> masked? |
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At the time of this writing (2005-Nov-28 15:23 Pacific), |
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sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 marked unstable/testing (~x86), not masked. |
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This usually happens to new versions. They come into Portage as |
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testing. If no bugs are filed after certain period, they go into |
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stable. |
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Hope that helps, |
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-Eddy |
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