CentOS - Mar 2013 - seeking enlightenment (java and dependencies)

Ok, all you javaphiles, explain to me why, when I was looking to try to
remove java-1.5.0-gcj and the -devel, it wanted to remove, as
dependencies, things like tomcat6, ant, and gcc-java. Note that
java-1.6.0-oipenjdk and -devel are installed....

     mark

On 03/11/2013 03:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Ok, all you javaphiles, explain to me why, when I was looking to try to
> remove java-1.5.0-gcj and the -devel, it wanted to remove, as
> dependencies, things like tomcat6, ant, and gcc-java. Note that
> java-1.6.0-oipenjdk and -devel are installed....
>
>      mark
>
>
What does yum deplist tomcat6 say?

On 03/11/2013 12:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Ok, all you javaphiles, explain to me why, when I was looking to try to
> remove java-1.5.0-gcj and the -devel, it wanted to remove, as
> dependencies, things like tomcat6, ant, and gcc-java. Note that
> java-1.6.0-oipenjdk and -devel are installed....
http://www.sourceware.org/rhug/java-gcj-compat.html

You'll note that unlike actual JREs, java-1.5.0-gcj is just 140k.