Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:11:05 -0400
> gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
>
>> I have not yet merged eclipse-sdk.  Must I merge this?  The only
>> version in the main tree is masked and it brings in 83! packages.
>
> One Does Not Simply Compile Eclipse[1].
>
> There is dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin in several overlays[2][3], which
> provide a pre-compiled version of that what you are exactly looking for;
> but if you want to build eclipse-sdk from source, you're on your own[4].
> Unless you get a team together; ping me, then I'll share a WIP version.
>
>  [1] http://thume.ca/2013/03/29/contributing-to-eclipse/
>  [2] http://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin
>  [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman
>  [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325271#c159

I see.  Thanks for setting me straight.  I had it wrong.

When I did an
  emerge --pretend eclipse-sdk
I received a note that a recent binary is in the java-overlay.
Is that what you would recommend?  I have used layman in the past for
gnome.

thanks,
allan