On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 21/04/2015 20:54, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
> > <mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 21/04/2015 07:28, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> >     > Is it normal for a stable virtual to require an unstable package?
> >
> >
> >     No, that is definitely not how virtuals should work.
> >
> >     It's either a bug in virtual/jdk-1.7 ebuild or more likely, stable
> >     request for icedtead-bin-7 is lagging behind.
> >
> >     I know the java team is badly understaffed, lots of mentions on
> -dev, so
> >     maybe log a stable request but against icedtea-bin-7
> >
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > Running 'emerge -auND' generates the following output on my system:
> >     >
> >     > Calculating dependencies  .... ....... done!
> >     > [ebuild  NS   ~] dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.3 [6.1.13.5] USE="X
> alsa
> >     > cups nsplugin -cjk -doc -examples (-selinux) -source -webstart"
> >     > [ebuild  NS    ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0-r2]
> >     > [ebuild  NS    ] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0-r1]
> >     > [ebuild     U ~] dev-java/icedtea-web-1.5.1-r1 [1.4.2]
> USE="icedtea7%*
> >     > -tagsoup%"
> >     >
> >     > The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
> >     >  (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for
> >     more details)
> >     > # required by virtual/jdk-1.7.0::gentoo
> >     > # required by virtual/jre-1.7.0::gentoo
> >     > # required by sys-libs/db-4.8.30-r2::gentoo[java]
> >     > # required by dev-libs/redland-1.0.16::gentoo[berkdb]
> >     > # required by app-office/libreoffice-4.4.1.2::gentoo
> >     > # required by @selected
> >     > # required by @world (argument)
> >     > =dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.3 ~x86
> >     > # required by dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.5.3::gentoo[nsplugin]
> >     > # required by virtual/jdk-1.7.0::gentoo
> >     > # required by virtual/jre-1.7.0::gentoo
> >     > # required by sys-libs/db-4.8.30-r2::gentoo[java]
> >     > # required by dev-libs/redland-1.0.16::gentoo[berkdb]
> >     > # required by app-office/libreoffice-4.4.1.2::gentoo
> >     > # required by @selected
> >     > # required by @world (argument)
> >     > =dev-java/icedtea-web-1.5.1-r1 ~x86
> >     >
> >     > /usr/portage/virtual/jre/jre-1.7.0.ebuild:12
> >     >         =virtual/jdk-1.7.0*
> >     > /usr/portage/virtual/jdk/jdk-1.7.0.ebuild:12,13
> >     >         =dev-java/icedtea-bin-7*
> >     >         =dev-java/icedtea-7*
> >     >
> >     > Thanks.
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Alan McKinnon
> >     alan.mckinnon@gmail.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >
> > Understood. Thanks.
>
> Turns out the virtual is working as designed - see Andreas's post above
>
> I recall now a discussion on -dev about this ages ago, and a consensus
> emerged then to keep things as they currently are (changing it requires
> much effort and has all manner of effects on the tree). The actual rule is:
>
> A virtual can (by definition) be stable as soon as one of its providers
> is stable.
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
>
I ended up doing as suggested by Andreas and yourself.

Thanks.