Steve Morris wrote:
> Thanks Col, I will check this out. I don't think I am using gcj as I
> uninstalled 1.6.0.6 to try the version from sun to check its power
> consumption, and wasn't able to install sun's version as it requires
> libstdc++5 whereas I have libstdc++6 installed, hence the running java
> is presumably 1.7 which I had installed as well. In this situation
> powertop indicated that the % interrupts from java dropped by about 10%.
> Also I attempted to uninstall Java 1.7 and rpmdrake complained that
> openoffice needed java installed.

As long as you use the Mandriva provided Java packages for Sun's
JDK/JRE, then our other packages will not complain. The main problem
will come when you try to install Sun's RPM package... Try not to do
that, and stick to the Mdv packages if you can.


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