Re: [gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

boslists@gmail.com ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> You didn't need this.  It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't
>> using a third party e-build.  The zip file came from Sun, but the
>> ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree.
>>
>> Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages.  In
>> this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs
>> automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one.
>>
>> I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it
>> didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want
>> to do.  For more info about overlays, see
>> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the additional info.  Good to know!
> 

I think this little misunderstanding could be solved, in the future, by 
clarifying it (perhaps in a footnote) in the gentoo docs. To me the 
instructions for java etc. have always been clear, but it doesn't mean 
it is always the case.

m.