On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:24, "Sebastian Redl" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: JRE - 
how to install one?':
> On Tue, September 5, 2006 9:15 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > Actually, kaffe (GPL-2 licenced) is now an option to satisfy many
> > packages dependencies on a 1.4 (generation-1) jvm/jre/jdk.
> >
> > We still don't have a freedomware 1.5+ (generation-2) jvm/jre/jdk for
> > Gentoo, AFAIK.
>
> Careful with the names. According to [the Gentoo Java Upgrade Guide],
> Java generations have nothing 
> to do with the actual Java version.

Ah, clearly I had misunderstood or misremembered that documentation; thanks 
for correcting me.

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