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