Linux distributors are famously averse to shipping packages with bundled
libraries; they would rather ship a single version of each library to be
shared by all packages that need it. Many upstream projects, instead, are
fond of bundling (or “vendoring”) libraries; this leads to tension that has
been covered here numerous times in the past (examples:
1,
2
3,
4,
5, …). The recent Fedora discussion on
bundling libraries with its Java implementation would look like just
another in a long series, but it also shines a light on the unique
challenges of shipping Java in a fast-moving community distribution.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Rethinking Fedora’s Java packaging