Les Mikesell wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>>>> On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the >>>>> openoffice >>>>> packages? >>>>> >>>> That would be because openoffice requires tomcat to install it ... if >>>> you tell yum that you want to remove tomcat ... since openoffice >>>> requires tomcat, it has to also remove openoffice. >>>> >> >>> It seems bizarre for an office suite to depend on a java servlet engine, >>> but OK... >> >> We don't write it, we just build it and make sure it links up correctly >> compared to upstream. >> >> Now how do I get one that works under Sun java? And is there >>> a way to get eclipse without gcj? >>> >> >> Not from Red Hat (wrt sun java) ... they did use tomcat and gcj. If you >> want sun java, I imagine you would have to change the specs and rebuild. >> I have no idea how to do that (I have not looked at it at all). > > Red Hat fixed their bug: > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0365.html That has been pushed to updates ... however, I don't see it has any impact on open office. It is related to tomcat. > I haven't seen a response to centos bugzilla 0002160 that I filed a > month ago about this. I didn't see the bug before ... but it was released 7/22/2007: redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-17.0.1.el5.centos.noarch.rpm <snip>
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