21 Jul
2017
21 Jul
'17
6:10 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 05:00:35PM +0100, John Hodrien 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 ;)
Tragically possible. :)
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