[gentoo-dev] Re: Changes to the way Java packages are built

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org> posted 4495739A.3040603@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on  Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:39:06 -0500:

> I have written documentation on switching to the new system, from the
> user's perspective, over at our wiki [6]
> 
> [6]
> https://projects.gentooexperimental.org/expj/wiki/Using_migration-overlay

Are there instructions somewhere for keeping to a 100% freedomware
solution?  I've been wondering about installing Java, but don't consider
slaveryware a viable local option, thus the question. (FWIW, in the general
case I couldn't install whatever binary legally if I wanted to, since I
couldn't agree to the EULA, tho I've not examined the Sun/Blackdown EULAs
recently to see if this would apply there, as they still aren't
freedomware and are thus still not an option.)

If it's not yet possible (or no documentation that will work for a non-Java
guy), is there a timetable?  No rush or even pressure to do it if you
aren't, but thought I'd ask while the topic is hot.  I did try the given
URL as well as the Gentoo Java Guide, but the former seemed to presuppose
someone already involved in testing (understandable at this stage), and
the latter didn't seem to mention any of the newer 100% freedomware
alternatives I keep reading about.  Thus, there was no answer I could grok.



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