From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: I am using Fedora Core 2 Test 3 CDs. I attempted to install gtk2-devel and it demands XFree86-devel. I could not find this package in the CDs, so I tried installing xorg-x11-devel. gtk2-devel stopped demanding XFree86-devel after installing xorg-x11-devel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gtk2-devel-2.4.0-1.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start with Fedora 2 Test 3 without gtk2-devel or xorg-x11-devel (or XFree86-devel) installed 2. try to install gtk2-devel - notice it demands XFree86-devel 3. install xorg-x11-devel 4. try to install gtk2-devel - notice it doesn't demand XFree86-devel any more Actual Results: The demand for XFree86-devel is confusing. Expected Results: Gtk2-devel should demand xorg-x11-devel instead. Additional info:
Depending on XFree86-devel is currently the recommended approach to this problem (according to Mike Harris, who maintains the X packages)