Should bluez be in base, or split deps?

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 14:17 +0000, psmith wrote:
>>>> are you saying that packages that provide the same functionality are chosen
>>>> to install by which has the shorter name?
>>>>
>>>
>>> yes that's how it work.
>>>
>>>
>> wow, that just seems so archaic!
>
> There are actually a number of other factors that are considered and
> given weight, shortest name is just one of those factors/weights that
> are used to decide which package to pick.
>
> If you have better suggestions, I'm sure the yum devs would love to hear
> about it.

When a providing pkg is looked up for a requirement, if we know what is 
requesting it then that pkg is factored into the assessment. look at 
_compare_providers() in depsolve.py in yum for the gruesome details.

-sv