Dependencies missing ??

[Michael Schwendt]

On 24/10/2007, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 19:52:04 +0200,
>   Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Due to a firefox update, everything that depends on an older
> > gecko-libs version is being rebuilt, too. It may be that not all
> > updates are complete yet. The new firefox, which provides a new
> > gecko-libs version, breaks the other packages' dependencies. Hence yum
> > refuses to install the updates.
>
> Since this is a security update for Firefox it might be worth someone in
> the know commenting on whether the gecko-lib update will really break things
> or if the dependency is all that is going to be updated in yelp and devhelp?
> Some people may want to force the update if it isn't going to actually break
> anything.

With the Firefox version, also the path to the libraries changes. So,
yes, this breaks into several pieces for many dependencies which have
the path built-in, e.g. yelp, devhelp, liferea, ...