When this package is emerged in a different ROOT=, when you run: eselect --root=$ROOT java-vm set 1 The symlink created in /etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm ends up being relative to the running system's /, causing it to not work.
Is this the same as bug #793965?
Yeah, you're right.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 793965 ***