2009/5/13 James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:15 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> > I think the problem is, that some packages notification-deamon instead >> > of (virtual) desktop-notification-deamon: > [...] >> Except that I don't see why those would cause problems during the build, >> when they're not even getting installed in the buildroots. >> >> The problem was/is that libnotify-devel requires a >> desktop-notification-daemon (via libnotify itself), and yum will install >> both packages that provide it. > > How did you come to this conclusion? > I'm not saying it's impossible, but the above seems unlikely unless yum > picks one on the virtual provides hit and then it gets an explicit > requires on the other (which isn't the same thing). xfce4-notifyd : 12 characters notification-daemon: 19 characters Short name wins! xfce4-notifyd is picked unless something within the dependencies is hardcoded to notification-daemon. And that's how xfce4 won the battle for the default desktop in the rpm world... Nicolas (kwizart) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list