Re: How does yum decide when 2 packages meet a dependency?

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Matthew Miller wrote:

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more)
packages provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to
install to meet the dependency?

It has a series of heuristics:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders

That's fabulous.  You mean Phil could have fixed my issue by renaming the
package priiiiiimus so that the name was longer than mesa-libGL ;)

jh
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