gcc-java vs java-sun-tools

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 17:39, Szymon Siwek wrote:
> 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.

Problem? It looks like a ,,fix''.

> > 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

gentoo has script as javac, javadoc etc that runs proper binaries depending on 
user setting or global settings.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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