Re: [fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Andrew Haley]

Ian Pilcher writes:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Suggestions welcome :)
>
> I'm not sure what the best solution is, but here are some alternatives
> to consider:
>
> Change the names of gcj packages, so that they don't match the
> JPackage versions.  For example, gcj-tomcat5 could "provide"
> tomcat5.  It should be pretty easy to conditionalize this in the
> SPEC files.
>
> Move the Fedora gcj packages into a separate repository from the
> rest of the distribution.  This would at least allow people to
> create a "pure" JPackage system by simply disabling this repo.

This seems like a really bad idea because it doesn't allow gcj
packages to provide dependencies for JPackages.
> That's all I can think of for now.  Perhaps others have ideas.

Andrew.