On 27/12/2007, Jesus Jr M Salvo <jesus.m.salvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/12/2007, garys@xxxxxxxxx <garys@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ? Because it is included within the firefox package. It is a virtual package. Examine "rpm --query --provides firefox | grep gecko". Other packages (not limited to yelp and devhelp) depend on a specific version of the Gecko Runtime Environment because often they access the libraries in a specific path which contains the Gecko version. Therefore they require a specific version of either the firefox package or its virtual gecko-libs package. You can only upgrade all at once.
