Replacing a depended-upon package with another which provides the dependency?

[Stuart D. Gathman]

Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on Mar 15, Allen S. Rout would write:

> Hi, there.  Is there a sane, RPM-politically-correct way to replace one 
> package with another which PROVIDES the same things?

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