[CentOS] Yum list installed lies to me

Sun May 27 17:47:35 UTC 2018
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:44:51AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 05/26/2018 05:32 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >however if I do:
> >yum install wxWidgets wxWidgets-devel
> >it says:
> >Package wxGTK3-3.0.2-15.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> >Package wxGTK3-devel-3.0.2-15.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> 
> wxWidgets and wxGTK3 are the same package:
> 
> $ rpm -q --whatprovides wxWidgets
> wxGTK3-3.0.4-1.fc28.x86_64
> 
> $ yum provides wxWidgets
> Last metadata expiration check: 18 days, 16:21:29 ago on Tue 08 May
> 2018 06:22:21 PM PDT.
> wxGTK3-3.0.4-1.fc28.x86_64 : GTK port of the wxWidgets GUI library
> Repo        : @System
> Matched from:
> License     : wxWidgets

I figured as much, but it took me a while to come to that conclusion.

why would someone have changed the name?

Fred
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