On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a > try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure > how to handle the error message. > > Also, which of the use flags make sense for a desktop machine? Is > nsplugin supported for amd64? javascript? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > lightning ~ # emerge -pv icedtea6 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="-cacao -debug -doc > -examples -javascript -nsplugin -pulseaudio -shark -zero" > > * Error: circular dependencies: > > ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') depends on > ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') (hard) > > * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily > * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies. > lightning ~ #
I wonder if you need to emerge virtual/icedtea-jdk instead? never tried it
