On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I'd agree but TUV is making the effort for me. > > If I make the time I'm tempted to have a null package > which requires "java7" and provides "java", but I haven't > tested such a thing. I have! Take a good look at https://github.com/nkadel/java-1.6.0-sun-compat-srpm for a similar such tool, providing the narrowest of shims to allow the Oracle jdk to be installed on SL or RHEL 6 without getting into dependency hell. Make your tool "Requires:" the "openjdk-1.7.0-openjdk" package, and you should be in good shape.