java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> I seem to remember Sun added all sorts of provides to its own rpm. Maybe
> the jre is providing xml-commons, gcj-compat the jre bit, and rpm
> considers there's no reason at all to keep the sun package
> 
> (yet another reason not to use Sun rpms - they've never been tested with
> yum in mind)
> 

just because two things provide the same item that doesn't mean that one
of the items needs to be removed. If that's going on then it is clearly
a bug.

hell, look at how all the /etc/alternatives things work.

-sv