On Saturday, 10. September 2011 11:13:29 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Why do I need this sun/oracle jdk when I already have > icedtea installed? Indeed, the next step in my normal procedure is > to run emerge --depclean --ask, which then wanted to remove the just > installed package. I will report this "portage loop" in a separate msg.
You had oracle-jdk installed, so it's upgraded. It's not needed anymore, because the virtual is satisfied with icedtea. That's why it is removed by a depclean. No "portage loop" here, everything works as intended :) > In any event, thank you again. > allan Hth, Michael
