> > 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.
