Re: [gentoo-user] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

[Francisco Ares]

2015-04-22 10:37 GMT-03:00 Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>:

> Set the following for now:
>
> /etc/portage/package.mask/java.conf
> ---
> dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin
> >=virtual/jdk-1.8.0
> >=virtual/jre-1.8.0
> ---
>
> I am unsure why none free alternatives were added before the free
> alternatives.
>
> Regards,
> Alon
>
> On 22 April 2015 at 16:34, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> A few months ago I got rid of oracle's java jre and jdk in favor of
>> icedtea.
>>
>> Now, when issuing an "emerge -tpvuDN world", oracle's jre is about to be
>> installed again on this system:
>>
>> "
>> ...
>> [nomerge       ] dev-java/jdom-1.0-r4:1.0  USE="-doc -examples -source"
>> [nomerge       ]  dev-java/jdom-jaxen-1.0-r1:1.0
>> [nomerge       ]   dev-java/jaxen-1.1.1:1.1  USE="-doc -examples -source
>> {-test}"
>> [nomerge       ]    dev-java/dom4j-1.6.1-r4:1  USE="-doc -source {-test}"
>> [nomerge       ]     dev-java/xpp2-2.1.10-r1  USE="-doc -source"
>> [nomerge       ]      dev-java/xerces-2.11.0:2  USE="-doc -examples
>> -source"
>> [nomerge       ]       dev-java/xml-commons-resolver-1.2  USE="-doc
>> -source"
>> [ebuild  NS    ]        virtual/jre-1.7.0:1.7 [1.6.0-r1:1.6] 0 KiB
>> [ebuild  NS    ]         virtual/jdk-1.7.0:1.7 [1.6.0-r2:1.6] 0 KiB
>> [ebuild  N F   ]          dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0.80:1.7  USE="X
>> alsa fontconfig nsplugin (-aqua) -derby -doc -examples -jce -pax_kernel
>> (-selinux) -source" 149.933 KiB
>> ...
>> "
>>
>> Looking for packages that need jdom as a dependency, and after a chain of
>> "equery d" commands, icedtea-bin itself, on its own dependency chain, needs
>> jdom, which, in turn, needs oracle-jdk-bin.
>>
>> Is there a way around this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Francisco
>>
>
>
Thanks, gonna try this right away, just to update the system for now.

Best regards
Francisco