On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:17 +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > 2009/5/13 James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >> The problem was/is that libnotify-devel requires a > >> desktop-notification-daemon (via libnotify itself), and yum will install > >> both packages that provide it. > > > > How did you come to this conclusion? > > xfce4-notifyd : 12 characters > notification-daemon: 19 characters > Short name wins! xfce4-notifyd is picked unless something within the > dependencies is hardcoded to notification-daemon. > > And that's how xfce4 won the battle for the default desktop in the rpm world... Yes, but there yum is installing _one_ package for the provide ... it later installs the other provide due to an explicit requires. But this isn't the same thing as saying yum is installing both for the single provide, which is what I read Bastien as saying. Just removing the explicit requires should fix mock, and presumably something would be added to comps. so that the non-xfce version is installed explicitly for installs. I did a "best providers" patch a few months ago now, to solve this exact kind of problem: http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/patches/yum-best-providers-metadata.patch ...getting that into yum for Fedora 12 should be possible, as long as Fedora rel-eng want it. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
