[CentOS] Seamonkey

[Jim Perrin]

On 8/6/06, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw the latest update announcements on the announce list, so I ran
> "yum check-update" and did not see seamonkey in the list.  Which I
> guess makes sense, since it's a name change from mozilla.  However,
> devhelp is in the list, and "yum update devhelp" pulls in seamonkey as
> a dependency.
>
> This seems like a sort of backdoor way to get seamonkey onto the
> system.  Did these packages really come from the upstream this way?
> What if I had not had devhelp installed?  Do I need to replace mozilla
> or not?

Seamonkey is the new mozilla, which both obsoletes the old mozilla
packages, and provides mozilla = 37:1.8. The updated devhelp does
indeed require this version of mozilla, and shipped with the
requirement from upstream.

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