* [gentoo-user] java java everywhere
@ 2011-11-10 20:02 99% Willie Wong
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From: Willie Wong @ 2011-11-10 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi list,
I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and
now am getting a bit confused.
Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running
icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to
[ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4]
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.46-r1 USE="nls -static-libs"
[ebuild NS ] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0]
[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-7.2.0-r1 USE="nsplugin -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -pulseaudio -systemtap -webstart -zero"
[ebuild NS ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0]
[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-web-1.1.3-r7 USE="nsplugin -build -doc"
And apparently I have many different choices of icedtea:
* dev-java/icedtea
Latest version available: 7.2.0-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 65,904 kB
Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org
Description: A harness to build OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and dependencies
License: Apache-1.1 Apache-2.0 GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-2-with-linking-exception LGPL-2 MPL-1.0 MPL-1.1 public-domain W3C
* dev-java/icedtea-bin
Latest version available: 6.1.10.4
Latest version installed: 1.10.4
Size of files: 36,173 kB
Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org
Description: A Gentoo-made binary build of the Icedtea6 JDK
License: GPL-2-with-linking-exception
* dev-java/icedtea-web
Latest version available: 1.1.3-r7
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 791 kB
Homepage: http://icedtea.classpath.org
Description: FOSS Java browser plugin and Web Start implementation
License: GPL-2 GPL-2-with-linking-exception LGPL-2
I figure that icedtea-bin is the binary version of icedtea, but
(i) What is icedtea-web?
(ii) Why the version jump from 1.10.4 to 6.1.10.4?
(iii) Why is the -bin one major version behind icedtee?
(iv) Do I really need to have so many different java things on my computer?
Thanks,
W
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Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
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