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boslists@×××××.com ha scritto: |
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> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote: |
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> <snip> |
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>> You didn't need this. It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't |
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>> using a third party e-build. The zip file came from Sun, but the |
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>> ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree. |
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>> Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages. In |
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>> this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs |
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>> automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one. |
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>> I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it |
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>> didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want |
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>> to do. For more info about overlays, see |
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>> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>. |
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> Thanks for the additional info. Good to know! |
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I think this little misunderstanding could be solved, in the future, by |
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clarifying it (perhaps in a footnote) in the gentoo docs. To me the |
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instructions for java etc. have always been clear, but it doesn't mean |
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it is always the case. |
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m. |
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