On Saturday 03 February 2007 15:12, Joachim Frieben wrote: > The bug got closed by J. Katz after classification as "NOTABUG". The > argument was that the "sendmail" command is provided by several packages in > "FC/FE" without particular ranking and "exim" simply seems to win by > alphabetical order compared to "postfix" or "sendmail" .. :-/ Do you have any other suggestions on how to programattically decide what choice out of many options you'd use to satisfy a dep? fooz barz billy go All of these virtually provide /usr/bin/whizbang and use alternatives to handle this. bingo requires /usr/bin/whizbang, and doesn't care which one. What way to you decide which to grab? Currently yum does a sort of all that provide /usr/bin/whizbang and picks the one at the top. Shorter names sort before longer ones, so in this case, 'go' wins. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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