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 -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader