«Liberica JDK is a free and open source Java Development Kit produced by BellSoft. It has been verified by TCK for Java SE specs and supports most Linux distributions [...]. The Liberica OpenJDK package with the HotSpot Virtual Machine viably replaces Java 8 (LTS), 9, 10, 11 (LTS), 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (LTS), 18, 19.» Liberica JDK would be a welcome addition to the official repository because: a. currently and AFAIK, Liberica is the only remaining JDK with up-to-date builds for x86 (32bit) since oracle and adoptopenjdk (now Adoptium) don't have any more official (or free) 32bit builds. b. some packages are starting to depend on java-11 c. it's expected that more packages will start to depend on java-11 (and, later, java-17) b. and c. are already starting to create conflicts during world updates on 32bit systems (eg: emerge commons-logging w/ USE=log4j pulls some packages which depend on java-11) where the latest available jdk is java-8 (dev-java/openjdk-bin). There is an unofficial ebuild in the wild [https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/edgets/tree/master/dev-java/liberica-jre-bin] but, with all due respect and honest appreciation, it's JRE (not JDK), it doesn't match the quality or seamless integration of the current JDK packages and lacks the USE=gentoo-vm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo "dev-java/commons-logging log4j" >> /etc/portage/package.use/java 2. emerge commons-logging 3. Actual Results: Conflict because dev-java/conversant-disruptor gets called-in as dependency and has a dependency on java-11 but no java-11 is available for x86. Expected Results: dev-java/liberica-jdk:11 gets called in as dependency to satiffy dev-java/conversant-disruptor requirement of java-11
