Thomas Matthijs wrote:
* Stuart Herbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:I think "sun-jdk" is an *ebuild* which requires two steps to merge. The first time you run it, it politely asks you to download the binary from the Sun download center and place it in /usr/portage/distfiles. The second time, it does the md5sum check and the actual install. I believe this is necessary because Sun does not grant permission to distribute the binary; you must agree to the terms on their site to get it.
On Monday 24 January 2005 21:44, Saleem A. wrote:
This is to serve as a warning to all users that dev-java/sun-j2sdk isWhy don't we have the Sun binary release of the J2SDK in the tree?
deprecated and is being removed from the tree unless someone has an
objection to this. It will be removed on Sunday unless there arrises a
reason to keep it.
Thats what sun-jdk is
Also, quite a bit of Java software won't work with Java Virtual Machines/Java Runtime Environments other than Sun's.
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