openjdk vs diablo-jdk

[bdsfbsd at att.net]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:26:50 -0400, Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>  
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:58:55PM -0400, bdsfbsd at att.net wrote:
>> I don't get it, how can openjdk bring in diablo-jdk as a dependency yet  
>> be
>> less functional?
>
> It's just a build dependency.  You need to have java in order to
> compile a java that's all written in java...
>
> Cheers,
>

Ahhhh... newbie vocab word of the day.. "build dependency"

It is all so much clearer now, thank you!

Brian