Hey Java Fans; How come SuSE 9.2 has all of the following empty directories? /usr/lib/java /usr/lib/java-1.3.0 /usr/lib/java-1.3.1 /usr/lib/java-1.4.0 /usr/lib/java-1.4.1 /usr/lib/java-1.4.2 /usr/lib/java-1.5.0 and /usr/share/java-1.3.0 /usr/share/java-1.3.1 /usr/share/java-1.4.0 /usr/share/java-1.4.1 /usr/share/java-1.4.2 /usr/share/java-1.4.2-sun /usr/share/java-1.5.0 and then /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2/ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.05/ which has one full of files It does seem only one set of jre files /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.05/jre I would think that /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2 could be removed. However, due to their dumb linking scheme of /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-sun/bin/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-sun -> (and finally) java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.05/jre Shades of Debian!
It deadlocks on start, known problem:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6195591
Blackdown fixed it in their recent release (based on code for Sun's 1.4.2_07pre):
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html
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