fc6 gnucash and firefox dependency ?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:

> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>> On Monday 09 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>>>> What does firefox 1.5.0.10-5.fc6 and gnucash
>>>> 2.0.5-1.fc6 have to do with each other?
>>> Is this a trivia question or a test?
>>
>> Neither!  Does any one know why Fedora versions of these two
>> apps are dependent?  I decided to remove the fc version of
>> firefox and install the newest stable version.  When I used
>> yumex to remove firefox it also wanted to remove gnucash
>> and yelp.  Okay, fine I will just install gnucash again.
>> Gnucash wanted to also install firefox again.  What's up
>> with that?  I don't want to have two versions of firefox
>> installed.  I have seen the posts of others with problems
>> from that set up.  Sooooo, I am going to try my hand at
>> creating my own rpm from source and install the latest
>> stable versions of gnucash and firefox.
>
> Tim answered with the most probable cause.  Makes you think M$, huh?  Got to
> have IE installed in order to run some apps....

IIRC, there is a plan to separate the browser and the rendering engine in 
Firefox at some point (maybe in F7?).  Then yelp will only need to depend 
on the rendering engine part.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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