Why are Java files listed as needing repair in Disk Utility?

Why are Java files always listed as needing repair in Disk Utility?

FrenchToast wrote:
Baltwo, bull's eye, as always!
X423424X's question is pertinent too: you usually need to repair permissions after some major upgrade or update, not on a regular basis. Is there a particular reason why you'd often try to repair permissions? Here's more on the subject.
Repairing permissions after an update or upgrade is harmless, but I would question the need to do it even there. The Apple update itself should set the correct Permissions. I still do this, really as a hangover from Tiger days -- not certain it was really ever needed there either -- and because it's a habit that's hard to kick, but it's never found anything to repair...but for one buggy exception, which was the 10.5.8 Combo update. Running it once and then repairing Permissions created a real error. It was discovered the Combo needed to be run twice back to back and then Permissions repair. In fact, one would have been better off not running Permissions for that update to begin with. There it wasn't harnless.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/9968141#9968141
BTW, even Flash updates, which always used to set incorrect Permissions, are coming in clean these days.
Exercises in Futility: Permissions Repair

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