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 I haven't seen a response to centos bugzilla 0002160 that I filed a month ago about this. And they have a packaged Sun Java available http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2007-0223.html (that's the link for rhel4 but I think there is one for 5 too). > You COULD get the OOo2 suite from the openoffice.org website ... that > gets rid of the tomcat issues. > Eclipse ... not sure. In theory it shouldn't hurt to have the unused gjc package sitting around. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com