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.
