On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
> java-check-environment

Running it, I got the message everything would be fine, but after uninstalling 
Sun's 1.4 JDK, Portage told me it'll be still needed. So after a bit package 
masking and uninstalling

dev-java/sun-jdk:1.4
=dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4*
virtual/jdk:1.4
virtual/jre:1.4

I got 

For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.27" [installed])
(dependency required by "dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4-r2" [installed])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])

and after looking at the tomcat-servlet-api ebuild I finally found that 
setting a java5 use flag and re-emerging the ebuild would be required, et 
voila...


It's really great that the Java team managed to convert all packages, but I do 
not call the above procedure user friendly. ;)


Carsten