Peper wrote:
You see that little "f" there next to the ebuild? It has a fetch
restriction. If you look a little ways up it will give you the URL to
go to to accept the license and download it. After you download the
java thing, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ then emerge it. I do
this all the time and it is a PITA. I wish some other java would work
as good so I didn't have to put up with the manual crap.
It's all about reading software license, which noone reads anyway :]
I didn't read it on their site either. I don't see what difference it
makes really.
Oh, as far as I know, this is the only program that has this
restriction. I haven't seen any other at least. If you use
http-replicator and run repcacheman, it won't even download it from the
cache. It's there but you have to get it manually. Sucks huh? Sun did
it, not Gentoo.
ibm java packages have the same restriction or even worse beacause you must
register to dowload the packages. And there are also some packages like
cedega, which you must even dowload by torrent :P
Glad I don't know what cedega is. I have heard of toorent before though.
Dale
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