[fedora-java] Re: Replacing FC4 Free Java with SUN's Java

[Andrew Haley]

Ian Pilcher writes:
 > Robin Green wrote:
 > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:24:26 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
 > > 
 > >>Will Fedora's OpenOffice work with other JVM's?
 > > 
 > > Yes. In fact, it will work better with a Sun JVM. The Java code in
 > > OpenOffice.org was originally written with a Sun JVM in mind, and work
 > > needs to be done to bring OO.o and libgcj into full compatibility (last I
 > > heard).
 > 
 > If that's the case, openoffice.org-core shouldn't specifically require
 > libgcj, which it currently does.
 > 
 > It should require something more general, such as:
 > 
 >    Requires:  java >= 1.4.2
 > 
 > which is provided by java-1.4.2-gcj-compat.
 > 
 > And it should conflict with non-Sun JVMs:
 > 
 >    Conflicts:  java-kaffe, java-ibm, java-bea, java-blackdown

There's no need for conflicts because of the alternatives machanism:
the JVMs quite happily co-exist.

Andrew.