On 5/23/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Why? gentoo is not distributing sun-jdk. a binary rpm would be. > read the ebuild. read the license.
pardon, where's the ebuild? I can't find it. I can only infer that an rpm cannot be created from a .bin file while an ebuild can. > > > The ebuild will also tell you where gentoo installs the > > > package, > > > looks to be in the /opt directory, so I guess the ebuild is not > > > following the LFS either. > > ... > > > > heh, that's ironic. > Why? Sun doesn't follow the LFS, which create a problem for RPM's, which irritates me, sparking my interest in gentoo. then, it turns out that gentoo, in turn, violates the LFS. this is poignantly contrary to what was expected, hence, ironic. bit lengthy, I suppose, but there it is. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
