On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry 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