gcc-java vs java-sun-tools

[Szymon Siwek]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:49:43PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 
> There is a problem with gcc-java vs java-sun-tools. These packages are 
> conflicting on each other but tons of java specs require one or another. This 
> means that manual uninstalling/installing on builders is required.
> 
/usr/bin/jar is symlink to jar-binary. The problem is that fresh rpm
detects conflict about symlinks.

> I guess that the only one conflicting file is /usr/bin/jar - I'm thinking 
> about adding gcc-java-tools package with jar binary only but... it seems that 
> such subpackage was already there and was removed:
> 
> Revision 1.298  2005/05/11 21:20:15  pluto
> - gcc-java-tools mreged into gcc-java.
>   this package isn't common for every java implementation now.
> 
> 
> The other solution would be putting Obsoletes without Conflicts in each 
> package so there would be no problems on builders (installation deps based 
> would work) ...
> 
It would be evil
> Any ideas how other distros deal with this problem?