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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] status of dev-java/icedtea
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:59:07
Message-Id: 20160630085841.03cf61c4@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] status of dev-java/icedtea by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:19:26 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
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3 > > Gentoo Security is no longer supporting dev-java/icedtea, as it has
4 > > been officially dropped from the stable tree.
5 >
6 > What is this? Does it mean the only Java available in Gentoo will be
7 > the non-free Oracle blob? :(
8
9 It means exactly what it says, icedtea has been dropped from stable. It's
10 still there but you'll have to keyword it. In that case you are
11 unsupported by Gentoo Security and will have to live with whatever
12 vulnerabilities it has.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief

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Re: [gentoo-user] status of dev-java/icedtea Gregory Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com>