[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: >>> 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. > > Well, my thinking was Sun does not equal Gentoo therefore Sun is a 3rd > party. Being less than a week on the Gentoo scene, and having no > experience as a developer, coder, administrator or any other computer > profession, I am still in the foothills of the learning curve > regarding Gentoo specific jargon like Ebuilds. > > I appreciate the patience.
The rest of us appreciated it when we first started too. I think it is one of those things that depending on how you view it, it can be taken more than one way. I know sometimes what emerge spits out just plan don't make sense to me but it does after someone explains it to me a little. Sometimes a LOT. Hang in there. It gets better. Dale :-) :-)