[Fedora-livecd-list] Unable to exclude firefox

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Dec 12 15:14:20 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:57 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> I'm still unable to don't include firefox on a livecd (although the 
> xulrunner/firefox conflict is resolved). I'm not even having an idea why it 
> is included in my local spins. I've explicitely removed it from 
> livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks and livecd-fedora-kde.ks (with "-firefox") and 
> it shouldn't be needed by any package (since xulrunner is there). I can 
> easily remove it on a running livecd (or even with "--shell") and rpm is not 
> complaining about dependencies then.
>
> firefox is installed right aside xulrunner, so I'm assuming it's maybe related 
> to the provides from firefox (esp. gecko-libs).

Are you explicitly listing xulrunner in your %packages section?  If not
and if there's something depending on an unversioned gecko-libs, then
firefox could well be getting chosen as the shortest provider of
gecko-libs

Jeremy




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