Java problem
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sat Dec 29 23:51:56 UTC 2007
> > Actually for Red Hat it is because Java was non-free. There are various
> > third party products bundled alongside RHEL which businesses demand which
> > are non-free.
>
> And what could possibly make them think that fedora users don't need the
> same?
Fedora is a distribution of free software. Now that Java is becoming free
Fedora will be able to include it. If you want a non-free Java for Fedora
then Sun will supply you with one.
> >> the baroque locations that java is expected to live on RH/fedora to the
> >> place that the official distribution puts it if it makes you happy.
> >
> > The Sun package is produced by Sun, they choosoe to put it in /usr/java.
>
> Sun probably knows as much as anyone else about where java should live,
> but if you want to second guess that and build a morass of symlinks
> pointing to symlinks, why not include a set that point to this location?
You'd have to ask Sun why they did it the way they did.
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