Is it intentional and safe for these packages to provide these Mono capabilities? Are the pairs of packages, which provide exactly the same things, interchangable at run-time? You know what can happen when Yum resolves a dependency by pulling in the pkg with the shortest name... banshee provides mono(Boo.Lang) = 0:1.0.0.0 boo provides mono(Boo.Lang) = 0:1.0.0.0 required by: boo - 0.7.6.2237-12.fc7.i386 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 banshee provides mono(Boo.Lang.Compiler) = 0:1.0.0.0 boo provides mono(Boo.Lang.Compiler) = 0:1.0.0.0 required by: boo - 0.7.6.2237-12.fc7.i386 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 banshee provides mono(Boo.Lang.Parser) = 0:1.0.0.0 boo provides mono(Boo.Lang.Parser) = 0:1.0.0.0 required by: boo - 0.7.6.2237-12.fc7.i386 banshee provides mono(ipod-sharp) = 0:0.0.1.0 ipod-sharp provides mono(ipod-sharp) = 0:0.0.1.0 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 banshee provides mono(ipod-sharp-ui) = 0:0.0.1.0 ipod-sharp provides mono(ipod-sharp-ui) = 0:0.0.1.0 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 banshee provides mono(NDesk.DBus) = 0:1.0.0.0 f-spot provides mono(NDesk.DBus) = 0:1.0.0.0 required by: f-spot - 0.4.0-2.fc8.i386 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 banshee provides mono(Boo.Lang.Interpreter) = 0:1.0.0.0 boo provides mono(Boo.Lang.Interpreter) = 0:1.0.0.0 required by: boo - 0.7.6.2237-12.fc7.i386 required by: banshee - 0.13.1-1.fc8.i386 db4o provides mono(Mono.Cecil) = 0:0.4.3.1 monodevelop provides mono(Mono.Cecil) = 0:0.4.3.1 required by: db4o - 6.1-2.fc7.i386 db4o provides mono(Mono.GetOptions) = 0:2.0.0.0 mono-core provides mono(Mono.GetOptions) = 0:2.0.0.0 mono-core provides mono(Mono.GetOptions) = 0:1.0.5000.0 required by: f-spot - 0.4.0-2.fc8.i386 required by: mono-debugger - 0.31-2.fc7.i386 required by: mono-devel - 1.2.4-2.fc8.i386 required by: db4o - 6.1-2.fc7.i386 f-spot provides mono(Mono.Addins.Gui) = 0:0.2.0.0 tomboy provides mono(Mono.Addins.Gui) = 0:0.2.0.0 required by: tomboy - 0.8.0-1.fc8.i386 required by: f-spot - 0.4.0-2.fc8.i386 f-spot provides mono(Mono.Addins) = 0:0.2.0.0 tomboy provides mono(Mono.Addins) = 0:0.2.0.0 required by: tomboy - 0.8.0-1.fc8.i386 required by: f-spot - 0.4.0-2.fc8.i386 mono-core provides mono(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib) = 0:0.84.0.0 nant provides mono(ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib) = 0:0.84.0.0 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list