/usr/bin/rmic -- why?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:52:58 +0900, Joel <rees at ddcom.co.jp> wrote:
>> What are jar, rmiregistry, and who knows what else doing in /usr/bin ?
>
> they are java related packages. they might have been installed by
> default. if you dont want remove them. this is not a bug

$ ls -l /usr/bin/jar
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 21 Feb 11 11:35 /usr/bin/jar -> /etc/alternatives/jar

The Jpackage-style Java installs (including the gcj one included in FC3)
use the alternatives(8) system to manage simultaneous installation of 
multiple versions.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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