[CentOS] How does yum decide when 2 packages meet a dependency?

Fri Jul 21 15:19:20 UTC 2017
Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org>

Hi list,

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?