Gary Benson wrote:
Yes, if you want to use JREs and SDKs other than the one we ship. And also yes if you want to use Java applications other than the ones we ship. However, FC4 users should be careful about upgrading packages when such an upgrade would result in a Fedora package being replaced with a JPackage one. Doing this will in many cases cause you to lose performance and/or function when using our JRE. In short, update from JPackage's yum repository at your peril.
And therein lies a problem. As you say, there are valid reasons for using JPackage RPMs on Fedora Core 4, but doing so is "perilous". It would be a very good thing, IMNSHO, if the Fedora Java folks and the JPackage folks could develop some sort of co-existance strategy. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx ========================================================================
