Missing dependencies - FC4

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 19:50 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 18:42, Andy Green wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I did request quite a bunch of xmms-related stuff.  I'll try it this
> > > evening, doing it in smaller batches, and maybe we'll be able to tie down
> > > the source of the problem.
> > >
> > > <sigih>  All I wanted was xmms or audacious to play my CDs
> >
> > It's not the stuff you requested but the different places you requested
> > it from that is likely underneath the problem.  Cut and paste the actual
> > errors into a post when you next look at it.
> >
> That gave me the clue I needed.  I used 'yum search xmms' to list what was 
> available, then installed the plugins in two batches, first the ones from 
> freshrpms, then the ones from extras.  They completed without errors, 
> presumably because they picked up the dependencies from the same source.  
> Thanks for the help, everyone.
> 
> Anne
Glad we were able to help.  

"Repo dependency hell" is a good term for the situations encountered by
those who they have multiple extra repos enabled full time.  The problem
you encountered is common in those circumstances. AFAIK this never
occurs with the base 3 repos (base, updates-released, & extras), but I
have seen it myself several times when I had additional repos enabled.