On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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> 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.