Java problem

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>> Real _what_?  If you execute java in fedora, you'll get something that
>>>> is not java and won't successfully execute many java programs.
>>> So use something else. You do know how to add and remove rpm packages
>>> right?  ;-)
>>>
>>> Ah come on Les. You know why they don't include Sun's Java. For pretty
>>> much the same reason they don't include your beloved codecs. Non FOSS.
>> Errr, no, this time is it because they want you to buy RHEL with support 
> 
> 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?

>> 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?

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   Les Mikesell
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