David Walluck writes: > Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Sun's RPM is explicitly NOT recommended. See the FC4 release notes and > > I went and read the release notes: > > `` Fedora Core 4 users are advised not to use the Java RPM provided by Sun. It > contains Provides that conflict with names used in packages provided as > part of > Fedora Core 4. Because of this, Sun Java might disappear from an installed > system during package upgrade operations.'' > > But this shouldn't be the case unless something is different from > jpackage.org, > where this package is expected to be able to be parallel installed along with > other sdk's. It is different from jpackage.org. That's why we recommend the jpackage.org RPM, not the one from Sun. Andrew.
