Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread hydra
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Turns out the virtual is working as designed - see Andreas's post above I recall now a discussion on -dev about this ages ago, and a consensus emerged then to keep things as they currently are (changing

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Turns out the virtual is working as designed - see Andreas's post above I recall now a discussion on -dev about this ages ago, and a consensus emerged then to keep things as they currently are (changing it requires much effort and has all manner of effects on the tree).

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2015 20:54, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2015 07:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mittwoch, 22. April 2015, 10:18:06 schrieb Dale: R0b0t1 wrote: I've been using 1.7 for some time now, I wouldn't have too many qualms using it. Well, I was wondering about other situations not this one. There are quite a few

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/04/2015 08:09, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Turns out the virtual is working as designed - see Andreas's post above I recall now a discussion on -dev about this ages ago, and a consensus emerged then to keep things as they currently are (changing it requires

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/04/2015 08:09, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Turns out the virtual is working as designed - see Andreas's post above I recall now a discussion on -dev about this ages ago, and a consensus emerged then to keep things as they currently are (changing it requires much effort and has all

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread R0b0t1
I've been using 1.7 for some time now, I wouldn't have too many qualms using it.

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-22 Thread Dale
R0b0t1 wrote: I've been using 1.7 for some time now, I wouldn't have too many qualms using it. Well, I was wondering about other situations not this one. There are quite a few virtuals in the tree. One recent change was the libav/ffmpeg. I'm sure there are others to. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Dienstag, 21. April 2015, 15:37:34 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Florian Gamböck wrote: Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable request for

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2015 07:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Is it normal for a stable virtual to require an unstable package? No, that is definitely not how virtuals should work. It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-21 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Apr 21 2015, Florian Gamböck wrote: Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind. You are right, the stable request is still going on:

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/04/2015 20:54, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2015 07:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Is it normal for a stable virtual to require an unstable package? No,

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-20 Thread Florian Gamböck
Am 21.04.2015 um 07:42 schrieb Alan McKinnon: It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind. You are right, the stable request is still going on: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546902 Obviously the virtual got

[gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Is it normal for a stable virtual to require an unstable package? Running 'emerge -auND' generates the following output on my system: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild NS ~] dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.3 [6.1.13.5] USE=X alsa cups nsplugin -cjk -doc -examples (-selinux)

Re: [gentoo-user] stable java virtuals require unstable java packages

2015-04-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/04/2015 07:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Is it normal for a stable virtual to require an unstable package? No, that is definitely not how virtuals should work. It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind. I know the java