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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:37:48
Message-Id: 87tww9k3fl.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages by "Florian Gamböck"
1 On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Florian Gamböck wrote:
2
3 > Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
4 >> It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable
5 >> request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind.
6 >
7 > You are right, the stable request is still going on:
8 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546902
9 >
10 > Obviously the virtual got stableized a bit too fast.
11
12 I was going to ask about this too. I noticed that the virtual/jdk-1.7
13 actually gives a choice of jdk's. One of them
14 dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin
15 does have a stable 1.7 version (indeed also a stable 1.8).
16
17 I am not anxious to switch oracle-*.
18
19 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>