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On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> > (i) What is icedtea-web? |
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>> If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s |
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>> output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point |
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>> right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Java Web Start |
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> The problem is: that doesn't help me at all. What the heck is Web |
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> Start? The corporate-lese at |
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> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-136112.html |
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> doesn't really tell me why or whether I need it. |
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...snip... |
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> Did you read my question? The problem is not that so many JDKs are |
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> available. The problem is "why does portage want to install them all"? |
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> (Scroll up to the top of my message and see the emerge --update output |
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> which wants to SLOT all three of icedtea, icedtea-bin, icedtea-web.) |
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> So cut the snark, Alan. To spell out the question for you more |
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> clearly: |
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I can't say he had the friendliest reply but he had a point, if you |
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read the eix output it says that icedtea-web apparently is a browser |
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plugin |
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> Why does portage want to install ALL three kinds of icedteas, |
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> when all I really need is a JRE? Is there some subtle differences |
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> between the three such that I must have all three available? Is the |
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> 6->7 major version update one which they significantly changed the API |
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> so things start breaking left and right? |
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using emerge with the '-t' option can be very helpful in these case |
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//Fredric |
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