Tracker?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:57:34 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:

> I thought an update to mikmod was supposed to allow me to install
> tracker? When I try, yum always wants to install mikmod from core, even
> if I have mikmod from updates already installed. I know I could fix this
> with an exclude from core but I thought I read this should be fixed
> without that.

Smells a bit like the old "shortest name wins" behaviour of Yum when
multiple packages provide the same thing. Because mikmod in Core still
provides "tracker", non-versioned, and "mikmod" is 6 characters, "tracker"
is 7 characters.

Using non-versioned Provides to create virtual packages is evil.