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.
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