You can lock the package at the installed version if you really fear the download is getting too expensive. I somehow doubt that you have serious space concerns on a system where you install java stuff though. So I'd still argue that the benefit (if there is any) of adding ugly hacks to support the broken oracle java packaging is just not worth the effort.
I have dealt with this stuff in the past; finding a way to support this at distribution level would be a nightmare; And though Carlos is headstrong about providing only half of a solution (only for JRE), this would become a nightmare with JDK and it's cool Epoch of 2000... In my humble assumptions, Oracle isn't providing the java Provides because of the crazy Epoch in 2000, that would end up forcing everyone to most likely use their package bringing pain and destruction to users :) This would only be reliable to consider in distribution world if in the future Oracle drops their Epochs and makes packages according to JPackage guidelines (which I assume it's what we use for JAVA packaging). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org