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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