JDK is more than likely the one you want, the difference is exactly as you said, one is supposed to be just runtime environment (what most Windows users get to view java on web pages) whereas JDK lets you build java applications on your machine. You can probably ignore that line with jre-bin seeing as how the JDK provides everything the JRE provides and then some (If you use java-config to set your java to a JRE, it informs you several functions are missing). They both point you to the same website, but from there you can choose which to download, including rpm binaries and documentation, though you'll want the one that matches the filename portage instructed you to use.
On 6/13/05, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > echo "dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > echo "dev-java/sun-jre-bin ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > echo ">=dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask > > echo ">=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.99" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask > > What's the difference between sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin? At first > glance, it appears that one should be the development kit whereas the > other should only install the runtime environment, however URL for > each ebuild points to the same website and the tarbell that the > sun-jre-bin ebuild instructs you to download contains the full J2SE > development kit and runtime environment. > > I'm mostly interest, because the sun-jdk-1.5.03 is hard-masked, > whereas sun-jre-bin-1.5.03 is not. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
