On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Guillaume Rousse
<Guillaume.Rousse@(protected):
> Alexander Kurtakov a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There are assumptions that Java is in some uncertain state in cooker, while
>> the truth is the opposite - next Mandriva version will be the first that
>> contains a JVM that has passed the TCK in the main repo.
>> The truth is that:
>> 1. java-1.6.0-openjdk package is based on the icedtea project and is named so
>> to match the Fedora package. This package is based on the icedtea6 branch
>> which is THE BRANCH THAT HAS PASSED THE TCK.
>> 2. java-1.7.0-icedtea package is removed because it was based on the branch
>> that will become java7 in the not so near future and as a result the api for
>> java7 is not stable now.
> You're just giving fuel to my usual argument: if those packages had been
> called just 'java', you would have less questions from clueless users
> about just how to use them.
>

I think it "provides" java. The problem is the half dozen other
packages also providing "java"...

On 2008.1 :
# urpmq --whatprovides java
java-1.5.0-sun|java-1.6.0-sun|java-1.7.0-icedtea|java-1.5.0-sun|jamvm|cacao|java-1.6.0-sun|java-1.5.0-gcj|kaffe|java-1.5.0-sun|java-1.6.0-sun