Bug 607781
| Summary: | kdebase includes empty /usr/lib/mozilla, may trump xulrunner dependency resolution | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Bryan J Smith <brsmith> |
| Component: | kdebase | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | awaizman, pknirsch, pkovar, twoerner, vbenes |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kdebase-6:3.5.4-25.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Prior to this update, the kdebase package included the empty directories /usr/lib/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. This update corrects the problem so that the kdebase package does not include these empty directories anymore.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-09-07 13:18:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Bryan J Smith
2010-06-24 19:13:16 UTC
Actually, java-1.[56].0-sun-plugin has a requirement on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins as well, which could bring in kdebase (or nspluginwrapper), etc... And xulrunner 1.9.2 no longer provides /usr/lib/mozilla I originally made this "low" priority because I thought there was a workaround. The workaround of installing xulrunner first won't work as a result of xulrunner 1.9.2 not including /usr/lib[64]/mozilla. Here is the xulrunner Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607788 I still think this should still be revisited. But it appears it requires another package with a dependency on /usr/lib[64]/mozilla[/plugins], and not firefox itself, to cause this. As noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607681#c5 "Since XULRunner is separate from Firefox, this would be a better move, especially since XULRunner is a 11MB download versus ... say ... something like KDE." My View: Packages checking for /usr/lib/mozilla[/plugins] as the dependency for a web browser is bad behavior and unreliable, and should not be rewarded. The "cost" of rewarding KDE versus anything like XULRunner should be the final consideration in this matter, at least that is my view.
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Prior to this update, the kdebase package included the empty directories /usr/lib/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. This update corrects the problem so that the kdebase package does not include these empty directories anymore.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1277.html |