On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Willie Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > (i) What is icedtea-web? >> >> If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s >> output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point >> right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Java Web Start > > The problem is: that doesn't help me at all. What the heck is Web > Start? The corporate-lese at > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-136112.html > doesn't really tell me why or whether I need it. > ...snip... > Did you read my question? The problem is not that so many JDKs are > available. The problem is "why does portage want to install them all"? > (Scroll up to the top of my message and see the emerge --update output > which wants to SLOT all three of icedtea, icedtea-bin, icedtea-web.) > > So cut the snark, Alan. To spell out the question for you more > clearly:
I can't say he had the friendliest reply but he had a point, if you read the eix output it says that icedtea-web apparently is a browser plugin > > Why does portage want to install ALL three kinds of icedteas, > when all I really need is a JRE? Is there some subtle differences > between the three such that I must have all three available? Is the > 6->7 major version update one which they significantly changed the API > so things start breaking left and right? using emerge with the '-t' option can be very helpful in these case //Fredric
