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On Saturday, 10. September 2011 11:13:29 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Why do I need this sun/oracle jdk when I already have
> icedtea installed?  Indeed, the next step in my normal procedure is
> to run emerge --depclean --ask, which then wanted to remove the just
> installed package.  I will report this "portage loop" in a separate msg.

You had oracle-jdk installed, so it's upgraded.
It's not needed anymore, because the virtual is satisfied with icedtea. That's 
why it is removed by a depclean.
No "portage loop" here, everything works as intended :)

> In any event, thank you again.
> allan

Hth,
Michael