On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Here is what I got... I'm using java-overlay from layman: emerge -pv icedtea-jdk These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N ] dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.04 USE="-doc -source" 645 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/javacup-0.11a_beta20060608 USE="-doc -source" 280 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/bcel-5.2 USE="-doc -source" 256 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/xml-commons-resolver-1.2 USE="-doc -source" 257 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/xjavac-20041208-r5 2 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/xalan-serializer-2.7.1 USE="-doc -source" 6,138 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/xerces-2.9.1 USE="-doc -examples -source" 1,672 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/xalan-2.7.1 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [0] [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3 0 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.3.0-r7 USE="-gcj -java6" 1,187 kB [1] [ebuild N ] dev-java/gcj-jdk-4.3-r4 0 kB [1] [ebuild N ] virtual/gnu-classpath-jdk-1.5 0 kB [1] [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="nsplugin -cacao -debug -doc -examples -javascript -pulseaudio -shark -zero" 53,560 kB [1] [ebuild N ] virtual/icedtea-jdk-1.6 0 kB [1] Total: 14 packages (14 new), Size of downloads: 63,993 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay
