> 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 One possibility would be to prompt the user, once alternative package choices appear and to let him pick one of them. Btw, at the time I had posted my bug report, "Extras" and "Core" were disjoint entities, and I was surprised/annoyed that a package from "Extras" got installed when there were equivalent packages available in "Core". So , in this case, I would have expected "Core" to have priority over "Extras" which appears rather reasonable to me. -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
