On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:25 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2013 4:15 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Why do you believe this? >> Do you believe that centos delivers inconstsistent libraries? > > if you replace the stuff thats under RPM package management with code > you self compile and simply copy, you break the package management > system. an update might come along and not realize your code is in the > place of the original RPM supplied files and replace them. > > btw, are /any/ CDDL components bundled with major linux distributions? > I know Sun Java was never bundled due to CDDL entanglement, instead we > have OpenJDK, which is GPL. I'm pretty sure there was a point where Sun Java was in the Red Hat subscription update streams, but not in the publicly available src rpms. And debian included it. Not sure about the status now. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com