On Tuesday 05 September 2006 20:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > 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.
You haven't, the upgrade guide actually tells you that the generation-1 system VM must be a 1.4 JDK. But this is not true for generation-2 which can be both a 1.4 or 1.5 JDK. -- [email protected] mailing list
