[fedora-java] Thoughts on JPackage, Fedora Core, gcj, etc.

[Anthony Green]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:31 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> What do folks think of adding an additional "provides" to packages that
> provide gcj libraries.  The Fedora Core version of tomcat5, for example,
> could provide "tomcat5(gcj)" or "gcj(tomcat5)", presumably versioned.
> 
> This wouldn't do anything by itself, but it would give higher level
> tools, such as yum, the information needed to apply the policies set by
> system administrators -- prefering the latest version, prefering gcj
> versions, etc.

I'm kind of clueless in this area.  Can you give an example of how these
tags would be used?

AG