On Sunday 19 August 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?':
> On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:57:17 Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > when installing jre, a full jdk is downloaded (57M).
> >
> > Is this a bug?
>
> I don't really recall the reason for virtual/jdk to be the default
> provider of virtual/jre but you can find it somewhere on bugs.gentoo.org
> if you care... ;)

It's probably the fact that Gentoo is source-based, so java packages 
normally require a jdk (for javac) anyway.  That said java in the browser 
only requires a jre, even on Gentoo.

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