Re: [gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

["boslists@gmail.com" <boslists@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, b.n. wrote:

> boslists@gmail.com ha scritto:
>>  On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote:
>>
>>  <snip>
>> 
>> >  You didn't need this.  It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't
>> >  using a third party e-build.  The zip file came from Sun, but the
>> >  ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree.
>> > 
>> >  Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages.  In
>> >  this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs
>> >  automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one.
>> > 
>> >  I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it
>> >  didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want
>> >  to do.  For more info about overlays, see
>> >  <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>.
>>
>>
>>  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.