From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FvmzD-0000to-15 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:14:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5T3CoYg029339; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:12:50 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5T3Cmc5011164 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:12:49 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D89964445 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12684-19 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from douglas.highley-recommended.com (unknown [216.231.62.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF2964360 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from douglas.highley-recommended.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by douglas.highley-recommended.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5T3CkVH007493 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:12:46 -0700 Received: (from dhighley@localhost) by douglas.highley-recommended.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5T3CkWq007491 for gentoo-java@gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:12:46 -0700 From: David Highley Message-Id: <200606290312.k5T3CkWq007491@douglas.highley-recommended.com> Subject: [gentoo-java] Questions about packages To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:12:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.464 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135] X-Spam-Score: -2.464 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 0714557a-8bb6-4dce-95d7-5ca50d541a78 X-Archives-Hash: 389243aab1e9c5cceaa5934c9f6f8a23 I have some generic questions about the gentoo Java packages. First I wonder why you would package Sun's Java for x86 and x86_64 platforms since it can be down loaded from Sun. Second question is why I do not see any apparent attempts at creating a package for Sun's distribution on the Power PC platform. I'm interested in this as we have a need for Java on an embedded OS platform that is running on a Power PC board. We are very interested in the effort it would take to build Sun's Java 1.5.x source to create a JRE for this platform the OS is very Linux like. Thanks David Highley -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list