Sort order for multiple providers [WAS: Re: Gnote 0.3.0 - includes applet and more plugins]

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 17:27 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
>> Yes, and nobody wants to do the work, so we are in the same place
>> where MTA is decided by the length of the package name. Which is
>> certainly the best.
>
> That's hardly fair.  When the user doesn't express any preference for an
> MTA, either explicitly, or through the use of the "base" group in comps,
> then yes, yum resorts to the best providers algorithm to satisfy the
> generic mta requirement.  With no other hints, all things wind up being
> equal amongst our MTA providers and yum does finally have to resort to
> shortest name.
>

and just so we're  clear: Shortest-name is not a yum-ism - it comes from 
anaconda, from looooooooooooong ago in a galaxy far away. I duplicated it 
in yum for consistency.

-sv