From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Km4xX-000119-Qr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:06:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A2BAE0316; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (aa011msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED342E0316 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 48D8459E01F9BF31 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 13:06:01 +0200 Message-ID: <48E75207.1040006@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:22:47 +0200 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080731) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java References: <20081002214934.29ec47d0@bellgrove.remarqs.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 328d5655-ddb9-42f8-804f-7d70fe709b2a X-Archives-Hash: 730b789b81589fe5aebe23c354ea318c boslists@gmail.com ha scritto: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, =EF=BF=BDQ=EF=BF=BD wrote: >=20 > >=20 >> 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 wan= t >> to do. For more info about overlays, see >> . >=20 >=20 > Thanks for the additional info. Good to know! >=20 I think this little misunderstanding could be solved, in the future, by=20 clarifying it (perhaps in a footnote) in the gentoo docs. To me the=20 instructions for java etc. have always been clear, but it doesn't mean=20 it is always the case. m.