Maybe that's because Fedora is a certain type of hell? Here's how it looks in Gentoo: angel root # emerge -p tomcat These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-1.2.6 [ebuild N ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 [ebuild N ] net-www/tomcat-5.0.18 Just two dependencies, all three get compiled from source. What's not to like? - Jeff