today's yum dependency issues for rawhide

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 01:30:11 UTC 2012


On 07/11/2012 04:49 PM, 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.
Ah, I see now.  I assumed that what I was reading was that systemd-libs was obsoleting *all* of the libudev libraries so I didn't
see what it mattered that both the .0 and .1 versions were being obsoleted.  I'll try removing vlc and let you know.

Thanks.

Kevin



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