On 5/23/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > An RPM is a binary archive of a package, it's a self contained > entity. An ebuild is just a recipe to build and install a package. It > knows where to, or how to, download the code, and/or, binaries it needs. > > Sun's licence does not allow third parties to distribute their code, > or binaries. ...
I didn't know that about ebuilds, so that helps alot, thanks. when the JRE or JDK is installed with an ebuild the license agreement from sun pops up, I infer. -Thufir -- [email protected] mailing list
