Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: News item: Generation 1 deprecation

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> 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
> 

Did you read the email? The the new java-check-environment is not in yet
and doesn't the news item say that 1.4 might still be needed?

> 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...
> 

We don't want to turn on java5 use flag by default because of
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161622

Any way in your case the user is expected to decide that he still needs
1.4 and leave it installed.

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

Well nothing breaks if you don't do anything. Guess that should be
reflected better in the news item. You will just have extra stuff in
your $PATH most likely etc.

Regards,
Petteri


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