[CentOS] yum remove 'tomcat*'?

[Les Mikesell]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Les Mikesell 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...  Now how do I get one that works under Sun java?  And is there 
a way to get eclipse without gcj?

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