> 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.