Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/07/2010 16:08, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> Then these start pulling in their own dependencies and I wind up with a >> list of 43 new packages being installed for dependencies. I just find >> this really strange since none of these were required for the previous >> version. >> > > That is quite interesting. I guess the question next is : was the > machine in a state where all deps resolved cleanly before you attempted > the install ? > As far as I know, these machines had everything installed cleanly via yum. And all of my 5.x systems show the same behavior. > Although, the new xul ad firefox update were a major step forward. > That may explain it. That's basically why I was asking here. I saw two options -- either the package had been legitimately updated with the new deps, or it was a packaging error that added in some extraneous deps. -- Bowie