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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I was having problems with mozilla, (which was due to corruption in a user's .mozilla directory). Before the true problem was found, I went to the Package Manager, and removed Mozilla and it's dependency items (mozilla-mail, mozilla-psm). (NOTE: mozilla had been upgraded to 1.0.1-26 via rhn) At this point, the plan was to add mozilla back in, in the case that something in the installation had previously been corrupted. When attempting to add Mozilla back in, I found that there were extra packages (mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr) that were still in the system (at revision 1.0.1-26). This caused the dependency of the cdrom version of mozilla (1.0.1-24) install to fail because mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr version 1.0.1-24 were not on the system. I'm sure that it is an honest mistake not having hooks to pull out the mozilla-nss and mozilla-nspr, but such issues are crucial for making the package manager work in a 'User Friendly' manner, as seems to be the goal behind RH8. I am happy with the product, and will continue to use it. I have used Linux for many years, and appreciate the hard work that RedHat has done to further the linux community. I know that the package manager is not finished, but I do think that the development is being done in the correct order. (user friendly first, high end/complex/aftermarket package management 2nd.) Thanks, Matt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: Please Enhance package management to include apps that are not included in the distribution. I understand that QA is important, but there are many cutting edge users that could be persuaded to use RH if there was only a streamlined system to retrieve nonDistro packages. I also think it would be a great improvement to the package manager to see a kernel module install feature for rhn. Many users complain about recompile problems on redhat systems when they use a vanilla kernel. by adding kernel module install options (such as mozilla), some users could have the additional functionality they desire without having to recompile, and potentially break aspects of kernel support.
These packages correctly don't depend on mozilla (they're libraries used by programs other than mozilla, eg, evolution 1.0.x links against mozilla-nss). The work around will be that you will be to add an individual package selection view so that you can remove specific packages, but that doesn't relate exactly to this situation and the policy of redhat-config-packages for the forseeable future is going to be to not offer to downgrade packages.