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Am 10.11.2011 22:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 |
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> Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Hi list, |
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>> |
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>> I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and |
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>> now am getting a bit confused. |
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>> Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running |
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>> icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to |
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>> [ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] |
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>> [ebuild N ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.46-r1 USE="nls -static-libs" |
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>> [ebuild NS ] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] |
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>> [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-7.2.0-r1 USE="nsplugin -debug -doc |
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>> -examples -jamvm -javascript -pulseaudio -systemtap -webstart |
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>> -zero" [ebuild NS ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0] [ebuild N ] |
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>> dev-java/icedtea-web-1.1.3-r7 USE="nsplugin -build -doc" |
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[...] |
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>> I figure that icedtea-bin is the binary version of icedtea, but |
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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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>> (ii) Why the version jump from 1.10.4 to 6.1.10.4? |
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> Look carefully. It's not a version jump, just the addition of a 6. |
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> prefix. It's to bring the -bin package version into line with the |
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> source code version |
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>> (iii) Why is the -bin one major version behind icedtee? |
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> No idea. You should ask the builder of the bin packages. The likely |
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> reason is that he hasn't gotten around to building it yet |
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Or maybe the build system is stable enough for general use. If someone |
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can share some experience with the source build, I'd like to hear about it. |
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>> (iv) Do I really need to have so many different java things on my |
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>> computer? |
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> Do you need to have so many different browsers on your computer? |
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> How about editors? Or for that matter why do you have so many coding |
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> languages available? How about openoffice? |
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> It's not "so many", that's a ridiculous assertion. First you have |
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> a choice between iced-tea built from source or a bin package. Firefox |
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> and OOo do the same. Then there's icedtea-web which is a whole |
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> different package altogether, implementing Java Web Start (which is not |
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> the java language, the sdk or a jvm). |
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> So, if you want Java as implemented by iced-tea, pick between source |
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> and -bin. If you want JWS, then emerge that too. |
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> Did you even attempt to google this and find answers yourself? |
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Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had |
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bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to |
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emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has |
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been keyworded. On a stable system, this should not happen. At least for |
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me, it still reads |
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KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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