today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 16:39:28 -0500,
>    Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >Please explain why that makes any difference in this discussion.  I'm not sure I see the relevance; vlc want's the 0 version, the
> >others want the 1 version, so what?
> 
> To get the .1 version the library needs to be updated, but that would remove 
> the .0 version which is required by vlc. Rather than remove vlc, the update 
> is blocked. This also blocks the update of packages to versions that require 
> the .1 version.
> 
> Some libraries to provide compatibility versions, but those are special 
> circumstances.

It's easy enough to test and see this in action for yourself (which may
make it easier to understand) - just remove vlc and try the update
again. You'll see that it goes through.
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