Ian Pilcher wrote: > 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". Yes, though again it's only a problem if you replace Fedora packages with JPackage ones. Installing packages from JPackage that do not exist in Fedora should pose no problems. > 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. We do coexist. Unfortunatly the limitations of rpm's linear version space mean that something has to give, and that something is upgrading. Cheers, Gary
