This was previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357623 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357623 Note that back in December they were p

This was previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357623 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357623 Note that back in December they were planning to push "empty packages to the archive, so that the Sun JDK will be removed from all users machines when they do a software update". Now they've changed their minds: "In order to prevent unexpected failures, we will not be pushing out empty packages before removing them from the archive."