[CentOS] stock openjdk vs. epel

Les Mikesell wrote:

> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
> version.  Is this intentional and desirable?  I thought epel generally
> did not replace stock components with newer versions.

EPEL doesn't replace rhel5 packages, true, and afaict,  openjdk isn't in 
rhel5.  Perhaps a centos addon/extra?

-- Rex