On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 17:57 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > I seem to remember Sun added all sorts of provides to its own rpm. Maybe > the jre is providing xml-commons, gcj-compat the jre bit, and rpm > considers there's no reason at all to keep the sun package > > (yet another reason not to use Sun rpms - they've never been tested with > yum in mind) > just because two things provide the same item that doesn't mean that one of the items needs to be removed. If that's going on then it is clearly a bug. hell, look at how all the /etc/alternatives things work. -sv