Re: [gentoo-java] Java installation handling not acceptable

[Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org>]

Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> thank you all for responding.
>
> I notice that it is ugly to explain this problem. So I will ask a simple 
> question and we will have a look at the answer(s).
>
> How do I emerge JDK-1.5 if I also need to set the "java" useflag?
>
>   
I'm not sure what you're getting at with this question... You can just
emerge =jdk-1.5*... You'd have to set the java USE flag yourself in
make.conf as you normally would. However, not all packages with USE=java
have been migrated to the new Java system, so those would need to use a
1.4 JDK.
> I'm really interested in your answers. But I think all possible answers are 
> longer than two sentences, aren't they? And THAT is the problem.
>
>   
Well, it is a complicated issue. If we hadn't done anything, Java 1.5
would still be package.mask'd. If we had done the migration by dropping
it directly stable, there'd be even more problems than there are, since
stable users would be having issues too. The way it was done, with the
generations, was a compromise. It is certainly less than ideal, but it
was the sanest way we could come up with to support it.
> Krzysiek Pawlik told me that one of my suggestions "would break 
> the 'non-interactive' principle of portage". But the Java installation _is 
> currently_ 'interactive'.
>   
It's 'interactive' because it stops when a problem is detected... a good
thing, yes?
> regards
> Daniel
>   
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