Le jeudi 06 septembre 2007 à 08:15 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :
That seems philosophically very wrong.
...
That's not supposed to be the case.
...
It's just annoying that the packaged location is different from what Sun uses
...
and Sun should be somewhat of an authority on matters pertaining to java
1. You're welcome to found a better designed Java packaging project.
2. SUN didn't care at all about the Java deployment problem space till it got sidelined by .Net and OSGi/Eclipse on the other. SUN's solution to the problem is JSR 277, which won't be deployed anywhere before Java 7 (mid-2008 at the earliest) and it remains to be seen if it will fly, crash or be rpm-compatible.
- and even more annoying that in this long chain of questions I still
don't have the simple answer
You were given information but chose not to listen. I won't waste any more time on the subject.