something's uninstalling the sun jre, again

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 18:28 -0500, sean wrote:
>> I installed jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.rpm from sun about two 
>> weeks ago.
>>
>> It's  gone now.
>>
>> Oddly, there's no other package called jre, at least on my 
>> box, but something's not playing nicely with others.
> 
> It is possible that the free java is obsoleting or otherwise conflicting
> with the sun java.
> 
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_56rh.1.1.i386.rpm
> 
> 

Yes, this is because Sun is not cooperating with the community on RPM 
packaging standards.  If you want a Sun java RPM that integrates well 
into Fedora, you should build one from jpackage.org.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com