Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean > virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar. > > I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE="java". There is an old > thread from e

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.11.2011 11:16, schrieb Willie Wong: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> (i) What is icedtea-web? >> >> If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s >> output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point >> right at the s

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Fredric Johansson
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >  (i) What is icedtea-web? >> >> If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s >> output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point >> r

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had > bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to > emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has > been keyworded

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > (i) What is icedtea-web? > > If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s > output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point > right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Jav

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Conti
>> Or maybe the build system is stable enough for general use. If someone >> can share some experience with the source build, I'd like to hear about it. >> > > The build system of the source build, of course. Well, it works, and my impression is that it's a bit faster than icedtea-6 (the build sy

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.11.2011 00:00, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Am 10.11.2011 22:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 >> Willie Wong wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and >>> now am getting a bit confused. >>> >>> Current

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2011 22:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 > Willie Wong wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and >> now am getting a bit confused. >> >> Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am r

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list, > > I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and > now am getting a bit confused. > > Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running > icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to

[gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to [ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] [ebuild N