Unable to upgrade firefox in F7 (needs gecko-libs = 1.8.1.3, this is not available.)

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 25/12/2007, garys at email.com <garys at email.com> wrote:
>
>  Looks like you upgraded to fc7 and you have a bunch of fc6 packages still
> floating around. Try "yum remove yelp devhelp gecko-libs"
>                               ............gary
>

No. This was a fresh install of F7 about a year ago on a new laptop.
OTOH, I decided to remove the packages yelp and devhelp, since no
other packages depend on these two ... and was finally able to upgrade
firefox ... which begs the question, why did the upgrade for firefox
required gecko-libs ?