Why does the RedHat/Centos tomcat7 (and tomcat8) rpm include apache-commons-dbcp and apache-commons-pool libs as dependencies and symlink them into $TOMCAT_HOME/lib?
My understanding is that tomcat provides a repackaged (and renamed) version of both these libs as $TOMCAT_HOME/lib/tomcat-dbcp. See here for a description of this.
It seems redundant to include the original copy of the commons libs themselves - but I'm assuming there's a reason for it. Does anybody know?
