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Variant auto-selection filtered candidates by whether their backend can run on the host, then ranked the survivors by size alone. The backend never influenced the choice beyond that gate, so a Mac offered both an MLX build and a llama.cpp build kept neither filtered and installed whichever was larger, leaving the native accelerated runtime unused. The same held for CUDA against CPU on NVIDIA and ROCm against Vulkan on AMD. Rank by the host's backend preference between the fit tier and size: fit stays a filter, preference decides among the builds the host can equally hold, and size still separates builds on equally preferred runtimes. The preference data stays in one declarative table in pkg/system, now read by a prefix lookup instead of a switch, so adding a capability or reordering one host's runtimes is a one-line edit and the gallery's ranking code carries no per-backend branching. MLX joins the metal rule ahead of metal itself, which is inert for the existing alias-resolution consumer because no alias group holds a candidate named for mlx. An unrecognised backend, an unrecognised capability and an absent preference list all collapse to the previous size-only ordering rather than erroring or dropping candidates. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>