On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:01 +0100, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm new in Gentoo and new in Java. I have already emerged Blackdown JDK 
> but I'd like to emerge Sun JDK too. And here the problem begins.
> I'm not interested in JDK 1.5 (it's considered unstable as far as I 
> know).

FYI:  There is nothing "unstable" about JDK 1.5 (or Java 5).  It is the
recommended "production" platform/runtime of choice for many large
vendors and IT shops, and has been for some time now.  It has simply
been package-masked here at Gentoo because there have been some
lingering ebuilds that didn't compile cleanly with it.  Hopefully it is
going to be unmasked VERY soon.


>  I believe that 1.4 will be enough for a novice. On my portage 
> this package is masked. Is it risky to emerge it? If it is not why it is 
> masked?

I think Eddy answered this for you already, but let us know if you still
have questions/concerns.

Greg