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[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:21 +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:21 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > * Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec at klika.si> [2005-06-17 15:51]:
> > > > I was wondering why gnu.regexp was included, given that it's
> > > > already part of libgcj?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure.  Gary?
> > 
> > Er, one of the jonas packages required it, so I added it. I'll see if
> > it can be removed.  It might be that we have to cause java-gcj-compat
> > to Provides: gnu.regexp to make it seamless.
> 
> I see; this was just a heads-up -- having two slightly different
> versions of the same library in classpath could cause trouble.
> 
> On the other hand, there are some discussions about replacing gnu.regexp
> with jregex in GNU Classpath (for performance reasons), so it's possible
> you'd have to add it back in later :/
> 
> > We also ship gnu.getopt; is that removable too, do you know?

I would like to see gnu.getopt merged into GNU Classpath.

Tom

> 
> It's not part of Classpath/libgcj.  And a quick scan with repoquery
> suggests no other package provides it.
> 
> -- 
> Ziga
>