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Description of problem:
RPM package java-11-openjdk-headless version does not provide java-headless which means installing a huge extraneous package into e.g. an OpenShift image, increasing its size by ~ 100 MiB

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
11.0.6.10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install java-11-openjdk-headless
2. Install mariadb-java-client, maven-lib, postgresql-jdbc or other package depending on java-headless >= ...

Actual results:
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless is installed along the way

Expected results:
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless is NOT installed along the way, and JDK 11 is used

Additional info:
There is no "Provides" capability for java-headless in the package:

# rpm -q --provides java-11-openjdk-headless
config(java-11-openjdk-headless) = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1
java-11-headless = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1
java-11-openjdk-headless = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1
java-11-openjdk-headless(x86-64) = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1
jre-11-headless = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1
jre-11-openjdk-headless = 1:11.0.6.10-0.el8_1

Since I cannot enter ref to SSO jira into links, pasting it here: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/KEYCLOAK-12868

Hi. This is intentional. It will be added once jdk8 will stop to be the system JDK.

If you need this, install mariadb, then insntall jre11-headless and then rpm -e --nodeps jdk8.   

The reason is, that no one currently guarantee that java stack will work with jdk11. We are slowly moving to make jdk11 default in fedora, once this pass, we can move to rhel. Sorry for bad news.

Thanks for the explanation, understood. We will use the suggested workaround for the time being then.