[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote:
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You didn't need this. It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't
using a third party e-build. The zip file came from Sun, but the
ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree.
Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages. In
this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs
automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one.
I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it
didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want
to do. For more info about overlays, see
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>.
Thanks for the additional info. Good to know!
I think this little misunderstanding could be solved, in the future, by
clarifying it (perhaps in a footnote) in the gentoo docs. To me the
instructions for java etc. have always been clear, but it doesn't mean
it is always the case.
m.
