Nice to see [the installation process on Linux][rpm] can be [as misguided as it is on Mac OS X][installer].

> The irritating thing about these system manglings is that by and large they’re unnecessary, especially things like the JDK ugliness. These companies are not running into novel problems in building RPM packages, and other software manages to do the right thing. The companies were just lazy. (And because of the license terms of their software, outsiders can’t fix the problem, build proper packages, and distribute the results.)

[Chris Siebenmann’s blog, Wandering Thoughts][chris].

[rpm]: http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/BadRPMPackaging
[installer]: http://reliablybroken.com/b/tag/installer/
[chris]: http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/