From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40AF51382C5 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89DCBE0993; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DD58E094B for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D979335C72 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20180410202346.p5d3gdzpxp6t2hco@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <4B1928CD-0A55-44AF-AB81-1A0A2FCD2124@antarean.org> <07b06943-3dae-964e-ab7c-9195e25d82ca@gmail.com> <0ab579f6-d621-5410-6cb2-d53925a2d431@gmail.com> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <887d5ea3-ae94-2b21-dd40-add51516cbec@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:15:32 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 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 In-Reply-To: <0ab579f6-d621-5410-6cb2-d53925a2d431@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b4e89fe-2398-4b08-be24-1095db010a6c X-Archives-Hash: 02c614d000b4579024c013265f984add On 04/11/2018 06:27 AM, Dale wrote: > > I think that is where they were talking about moving it from.  At one > point, they were discussing putting it in /var somewhere.  Maybe they > decided not to move it at all.  I seem to recall there being a quite > active and lengthy thread about it on -dev but that was years ago.  I > don't think my archives go back that far.  > It never worked. None of the better options had 100% support, so we left it in the worst place of all, with which everyone is equally unhappy =)