Usually all gradle projects contain gradle wrappers (gradlew.bat and
gradlew.sh). If you have them, you just need Java and run: ./gradlew build

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:

> In order to build an android app, I need gradle.  Apparently, there's
> only a binary version in gentoo, dev-java/gradle-bin, but there's a
> source version in the mva overlay.  Why might it only be in an overlay?
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> This link:
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gradle#Availability
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> links to:
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> https://github.com/msva/mva-overlay/tree/master/dev-java/gradle
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> containing 3 files, none of which is 100 lines.
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> If that's all it takes, why not be part of the distribution?
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> TIA
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