Hi, there's also another kind of user with different expectations to the classpath. I'm new to the world of java and I'm kind of shocked, how binary jar files are thrown around and nobody cares, what they contain and where they came from. When I package a software for Debian, the users of Debian expect me to check the license and the security of the software. So I can not simply take whatever jar file I find in the lib/ folder.
So when I develop java software, I prefer to ignore the jars in the lib/ folder and try to satisfy the dependencies with the jar files from the Debian distribution. Those are located in /usr/share/java and often have slightly different names then the original jars. But let us take our time, since Java is free only since 2006, there is still a long way, until free software developers and the java world understand each others. Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
