fc6 gnucash and firefox dependency ?

[Ed Greshko]

linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>>> What does firefox 1.5.0.10-5.fc6 and gnucash
>>> 2.0.5-1.fc6 have to do with each other?
>> Is this a trivia question or a test?
> 
> Neither!  Does any one know why Fedora versions of these two 
> apps are dependent?  I decided to remove the fc version of 
> firefox and install the newest stable version.  When I used 
> yumex to remove firefox it also wanted to remove gnucash 
> and yelp.  Okay, fine I will just install gnucash again.  
> Gnucash wanted to also install firefox again.  What's up 
> with that?  I don't want to have two versions of firefox 
> installed.  I have seen the posts of others with problems 
> from that set up.  Sooooo, I am going to try my hand at 
> creating my own rpm from source and install the latest 
> stable versions of gnucash and firefox.

Tim answered with the most probable cause.  Makes you think M$, huh?  Got to
have IE installed in order to run some apps....


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