From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: php-mbstring depends on php too. so that cause circular dependence. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: rpm -Uvh php-4.3.8-2.1.rpm Actual Results: need php-mbstring Expected Results: don't need php-mbstring Additional info:
The original php package contained the mbstring extension, statically linked, so this is necessary to maintain current behaviour on updates. For FC3, php-mbstring does not depend on php, so you can remove it if desired.