Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone <at> fastwebnet.it> writes:
> a note for Paul: you have installed firefox-devel, so four packaged are
> proposed to be upgraded.
firefox-devel is just one of the 3 packages dragged in for an update. The
devhelp and yelp packages don't have much to do with firefox-devel, they use it
only at build time. So you can have these installed even if you don't have
firefox-devel, and they'll still have to be updated for Firefox 2. There are
also a few more packages which have to be updated if you have them, see Rémi
Collet's newsitem for a list.
And in these cases, the packages which had to be updated didn't drag in new
dependencies. There's no guarantee for that to be the case, you can end up with
half your distro upgraded when updating from development. This might even
happen when you try to get the next security update for Firefox 2 from
development. So upgrading packages from development on what's supposed to be an
FC6 system is a really, really bad idea, even if it happened to work fine for
you. It's not something you should recommend to new users.
Kevin Kofler
