On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, b.n. wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote:
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> 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.
