On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 14:17 +0000, psmith wrote: > >> are you saying that packages that provide the same functionality are chosen > >> to install by which has the shorter name? > >> > > > > yes that's how it work. > > > > > wow, that just seems so archaic! There are actually a number of other factors that are considered and given weight, shortest name is just one of those factors/weights that are used to decide which package to pick. If you have better suggestions, I'm sure the yum devs would love to hear about it. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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