On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 4:36 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote:
> Java on Gentoo is really not bad, if you are familiar with Java at all. > It's actually quite insane "if you're familiar with Java at all"... Building C and C++ from source is great. 51% of dev-java category is doing pointless work. 401 ebuilds only have IUSE="doc source" which can almost always be fetched from Maven Central, and 44 ebuilds have no USE flags at all. That's just from simple grep results. Given the ugly majority there, I don't doubt there's some silliness going on in the remaining 49%. Building Java from source to get the exact same jar file every time on a million machines when you could just fetch the upstream jar instead is plain stupid.
