Summary: | 2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16 overly optimistic | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mike Hammill <michael> |
Component: | [OLD] Java | Assignee: | Java team <java> |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-766568.html | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Mike Hammill
2009-05-26 22:01:01 UTC
From the news item: If you want to remove 1.4 JDKs, you should use emerge --depclean. Depending on what you have installed you might not need a 1.4 JDK any more. To see if you still need a 1.4 JDK use: You obviously do as you use an Eclipse version that needs it to build etc. If you have a better wording to suggest please submit a patch as I don't have a clear idea on how to make the wording better. The gentoo-news module can be checked out with svn. Instructions are in http://anonsvn.gentoo.org/ The historical context is that previously we always required a JDK 1.4 to be installed. Users of course haven't stumbled upon this requirement really for quite a while any more as only a few rarely used ebuilds have been left. This is what the first chapter talks about. OK, well if you can emerge *any* eclipse from the gentoo tree without 1.4, you certainly might as well leave the wording as it is. I couldn't find *any* such eclipse. Since eclipse is fairly significant in the java world, it seems strange to word it that "All these ebuilds are now gone from the main tree..." but it's all depends on your perspective. I'm certainly no politician. Thanks for the consideration anyway. (In reply to comment #3) In other words, although I couldn't find 1.4 mentioned in the lastest eclipse ebuild, it must be lurking in one of the dependencies *or* there is some other step one must take to avoid 1.4. I will just look into it further on my own or just go back to the old 1.4. Thanks anyway. (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > In other words, although I couldn't find 1.4 mentioned in the lastest eclipse > ebuild, it must be lurking in one of the dependencies *or* there is some other > step one must take to avoid 1.4. I will just look into it further on my own or > just go back to the old 1.4. Thanks anyway. > You still need to install 1.4 if pulled in by dependencies. Previously java-check-environment always complained about not having 1.4 installed. |