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 1KmAJE-0007hl-Cx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:48:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BEEFE02FA; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37DE2E02FA for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:48:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c37so925325wra.26 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:48:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NQQQZ/D/fJEG8aTjtdV98cURWdXkswDmb/vr+IV5L5w=; b=vB/84RtCFV5amEXvFoX2IZoMW/NFiRnW9HZdvQSSCiI9kpqqnAiKec9FyI054FbqPz l93YBuYrCtPKLnl/gevR6IZdSu1qAeekfJdhmxApePCnTqa6J34+z1BKNhz4oxId5+IU MLh7ZPjuQaODwws/6a//j+NL+CkF1fgSPN/6g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gOkCHKGpkwPUJB2gMB5BAccBap/pQidOeTd5ci/0lwU3fjGRMpGp7XsQ4tQfyZezv2 l09M/z3n4xrTzeROHQRurCjS3/W0AmM02yp/nnhd7zQ3a208tS+M/EveikVDEhk+xRsP DnRjzhwbTtAX8OFfqBz5L3i63tYf+e9h1fjyY= Received: by 10.100.140.14 with SMTP id n14mr2963394and.87.1223138926144; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.78.70.252? (host-216-78-70-252.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.70.252]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm9743264yxt.1.2008.10.04.09.48.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E79E69.4080600@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:48:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080928 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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> <48E75207.1040006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ac8c9d1-0c0e-467f-886e-6d71c66939c6 X-Archives-Hash: 2541652d13dd9efa07e49aa34ff5c0a9 boslists@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> boslists@gmail.com ha scritto: >>> 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. > > Well, my thinking was Sun does not equal Gentoo therefore Sun is a 3rd > party. Being less than a week on the Gentoo scene, and having no > experience as a developer, coder, administrator or any other computer > profession, I am still in the foothills of the learning curve > regarding Gentoo specific jargon like Ebuilds. > > I appreciate the patience. The rest of us appreciated it when we first started too. I think it is one of those things that depending on how you view it, it can be taken more than one way. I know sometimes what emerge spits out just plan don't make sense to me but it does after someone explains it to me a little. Sometimes a LOT. Hang in there. It gets better. Dale :-) :-)