Gary Benson writes: > David Walluck wrote: > > Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I don't think that there are any major issues with co-existence. The > > idea, as I gather from the list, was always to have FC4 be ``fully'' > > jpp-compatible. > > > > The major issue I see is that the .so files and other binaries > > aren't shipped separately. I never did catch the exact reason for > > this. > > There's a multitude of reasons. The biggest showstopper of them all > (from my point of view) is that there's no way to cause the native > stuff to be installed automatically. Someone who did 'yum install > tomcat5' would have a very slow Tomcat if they did not know to run > 'yum install tomcat-gcjlibs' or whatever. Precompiled binaries are bug, so adding the jars to the same RPM as the binaries makes not a huge difference to the total size. Andrew.
