Re: Java problem

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> > 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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