[gentoo-user] Re: eclipse portage package

[Jörg Schaible]

Chuck Robey wrote:

[snip]
 
> Mark, I could be responsible for this (the fact that it seems that neither
> of the things I really wanted to know are covered) because sometimes I am
> not clear in what I'm asking, so let me try again.
>
> I need to get an up-to-date version of eclipse working on my gentoo box.
> First question is, is there a Galileo (3.5+) version of eclipse available
> as a portage
> package?  I can't find it, so I'd really appreciate a pointer.  The only
> thing I can see is a fairly old eclipse version (I think a year or more
> out of date).
>
> Second question, at the eclipse website, I see a binary version of the
> latest
> Linux-eclipse (the version I'm after).  If I *can't* get a portage package
> version of Galileo-eclipse, then if I install the binary package
> (non-portage) from the eclipse website, can I get (and how can I get)
> portage to consider this package as supplying any dependency which would
> be otherwise supplied by the latest (ganymede, 3.4+) portage version of
> the eclipse tool .
>
> Unless I'm completely misreading your stuff, your examples tell me how to
> install the (too old) portage version, which is in all cases just too old
> for me, so my 2 questions boil down to (1) must I?, and (2) How do I?

The binary is self-contained, simply install it in /opt and you're done. As
long as you have X running, it's enough and you don't need to tell portage
anything about it.

- Jörg