It may be needed on amd64 because: 1. it has 32bit netscape java plugin, 2. it has -client jvm, which sometimes faster than -server. For my tasks blackdown server JDK on amd64 was too much slower than sun client JDK on x86. So I think it would be great to add ~amd64 keyword to ebuild. Sun 32bit JDK works fine for me, I added amd64 keyword and modified RDEPEND in sun-jdk-1.4.2.06.ebuild: RDEPEND="x86? ( sys-libs/lib-compat ) amd64? ( app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat )" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ http://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java javamail javascript jp2 jpeg junit kde kerberos ldap lzw lzw-tiff mng mozdevelop mozilla mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl objc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales winbind wmf xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib linguas_en linguas_ru linguas_uk"
The 32-bit netscape java plugin doesn't work. It installs it into /usr/lib64 (which is wrong), but even after I link it in to /usr/lib32, it causes firefox-bin to fail to load. I think this should stay masked.
see comment #1
