Agreed. Ultimately a download/install gives you the most control and without more info I would say the same.
It very much depends on your set-up, which versions of Java & Tomcat that you wish to use, is it released or testing code?, etc. But still, installing Tomcat on Gentoo ~x86 (testing in other words) didn't require me to download either sun-jimi or sun-javamail-bin here. So the options I think Enrico has are: 1. Download and install yourself or 2. Use the Gentoo forums to find out the Gentoo installation is pulling in those deps. HTH Owen On Tuesday 05 December 2006 18:33, Andrew Miehs wrote: > This however is a Gentoo packaging problem and not a user problem. > > If you want to get tomcat working as quickly as possible - download > it directly from > apache.org and IGNORE the gentoo packages. > > If you want it to work properly as a gentoo package either contact > the package admin/ > Gentoo user mailing list, or fix it yourself. > > My recommendation: > > Do not install Java or Tomcat from distributions, always install them > yourself - > > A) Its easier > B) It works with no nasty side effects.... > > Andrew > > On 05/12/2006, at 7:19 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Owen Cumpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'll jump in here, I use Gentoo ~x86 (a bit racy, but hey) and > >> Tomcat 5.5.20 > >> installs without any non-free dependencies (that I could see). > >> > >> Looking in the Gentoo forums, a new ebuild for Tomcat had been > >> released on 1st > >> December to overcome a similar issue (maybe even the same as yours). > >> > >> Look in: > >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-518653-highlight-tomcat.html > > > > That doesn't solve the whole problem. > > There're still some other unfree packages required, ie. sun-jimi > > and sun-javamail-bin :(( > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
