> root:503 ~> equery d virtual/jdk > [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/jdk... ] > app-office/openoffice-3.1.1 (java? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) > (java? =virtual/jdk-1.6*) > dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) > (java6? >=virtual/jdk-1.6) ... > > My 'make.conf' has 'java', but not 'java6', > so there mb some obscure problem lurking in OO, which I haven't hit yet > (Java in OO is largely for DB & help, isn't it ? ). > > BTW can anyone advise what the '*' means in the list above ?
Consider cd && ls .* The star is the same wildcard... So like a dependency of jdk-1.5* means any java pacakge (full package here including the version number) with 1.5[anything] is accepted to meet the dependency in the case you don't use java6. ~daid
