seth vidal wrote: >>Basically you have two (ok more than two) packages that serve the same >>purpose (functionnaly the same, very different sets of bugs). Their specs >>provide the same virtuals so people can chose the one they prefer (and >>they are parallel installable) >> >>On update of one of them yum removes the others. >> > > > For more backstory: is there an obsolete in place for any of these? FYI, as Michael pointed out, it's a bug^H^H^H... feature of rpm, since it Provides: jre = %{javaver} For details, see: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/111071 -- Rex