commit:     8a1eda4270397e30dd267b4fbaf4acd2308e6616
Author:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun Dec 17 21:58:44 2017 +0000
Commit:     James Le Cuirot <chewi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Dec 17 22:14:33 2017 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8a1eda42

profiles: Mask dev-java/oracle-(jdk|jre)-bin:9[gentoo-vm]

Java 9 is not yet fully supported on Gentoo. Having a masked gentoo-vm
flag allows us to provide it without it breaking Gentoo
packages. Those who wish to experiment with it as a fully recognised
Gentoo JVM can unmask the flag.

 profiles/base/package.use.mask | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/profiles/base/package.use.mask b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
index f8a06952e64..2444dc59df1 100644
--- a/profiles/base/package.use.mask
+++ b/profiles/base/package.use.mask
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@
 # This file is only for generic masks. For arch-specific masks (i.e.
 # mask everywhere, unmask on arch/*) use arch/base.
 
+# James Le Cuirot <[email protected]> (17 Dec 2017)
+# Java 9 is not yet fully supported on Gentoo. Having a masked
+# gentoo-vm flag allows us to provide it without it breaking Gentoo
+# packages. Those who wish to experiment with it as a fully recognised
+# Gentoo JVM can unmask the flag.
+dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin:9 gentoo-vm
+dev-java/oracle-jre-bin:9 gentoo-vm
+
 # Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> (04 Nov 2017)
 # Requires audacious, which is masked. Bug 632513
 =media-libs/freeverb3-3.1.2_pre20151102-r1 jack

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