New virtual/jdk-1.7.0 insists on building oracle-jdk-bin

[figueroa]

Last year, I transitioned my primary Gentoo system from Oracle Java to Icedtea with which I have been very happy. This morning, I found a routine update (emerge -uDN world) wanted to install:

[ebuild NS ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0-r1]

which was pulling in:

[ebuild N F ] dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0.9 USE="X alsa fontconfig nsplugin source -derby -doc -examples -jce -pax_kernel"

After about an hour of fiddling with various dependencies, I found that adding

=virtual/jdk-1.7.0

to /etc/portage/package.mask solved the problem for now. (I'm trying to keep Oracle Java out of my system).

A little further poking around showed that by adding:

dev-java/icedtea-bin ~x86
(or I could have unmasked dev-java/icedtea and accomplished my goal)

to my /etc/portage/package.keywords files and removing =virtual/jdk-1.7.0 from package.mask allowed virtual/jdk-1.7.0 to be installed along with upgrading to ~dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.3.3-r1 in a new slot along with stable 6.1.11.5-r1.

This is what I'm doing right now. I think a little more guru guidance would have been helpful. Corrective advice would also be appreciated.
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Andy Figueroa
andy@andyfigueroa.us

[krinn]

virtual/jdk-1.7 goes stable
virtual/jdk-1.7 provide by stable oracle-jdk-bin-1.7*
virtual/jdk-1.7 provide by unstable icedtea-7*

now if portage is restrict by your stable keyword, it couldn't pickup any other choice than the stable one that comply with the virtual.

[albright]