[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Andrew Haley]

Ian Pilcher writes:
 > Gary Benson wrote:
 > > Suggestions welcome :)
 > 
 > I'm not sure what the best solution is, but here are some alternatives
 > to consider:
 > 
 >   1.  Change the names of gcj packages, so that they don't match the
 >       JPackage versions.  For example, gcj-tomcat5 could "provide"
 >       tomcat5.  It should be pretty easy to conditionalize this in the
 >       SPEC files.
 >
 >   2.  Move the Fedora gcj packages into a separate repository from the
 >       rest of the distribution.  This would at least allow people to
 >       create a "pure" JPackage system by simply disabling this repo.

This seems like a really bad idea because it doesn't allow gcj
packages to provide dependencies for JPackages.

 > That's all I can think of for now.  Perhaps others have ideas.

Andrew.