java-1.4.2-gcj-compat uninstalls sun jre

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 26 avril 2005 à 13:21 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
> 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.

Thanks but the non-sun java rpms already use alternatives extensively
(and it was a bitch to get right)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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