Knocking out Firefox seems pretty painful from a usability standpoint, especially when answers online are floating around introduced the --best and --allowerasing (admittedly from me, but that was back when we had the libuv problem)
Not to mention the historical ugliness of gnome-shell on rawhide. Is that now par for the course, or is there anything you can do to mitigate it? On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:25 AM Stephen Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/15/2016 09:17 AM, Robert Van Voorhees wrote: > > Hey guys, anyone notice that updating to Node 6.5 is pulling in a whole > lot more > > stuff now than it used to? I'm trying to make the move from 6.3 to 6.5, > and > > it's forcing updates to gnome-shell, uninstalling Firefox, and a whole > range of > > weird behavior. Does it have something to do with upgrading v8, or one > of the > > other dependencies? > > > > If that was 6.3.0 to 6.5.0, then it probably has to do with the fact that > we > added a dependency on libicu to support internationalization. That's a > pretty > heavily-used library, and I suspect it's causing you to need to update > other > stuff that relies on it. > > We added the icu support in 6.3.1. Libicu is troublesome, in that it bumps > SOname on every upstream release, so everything has to be rebuilt against > it. > Since Node.js is built against the latest release (57), it probably had to > update everything that you had on your system that was depending on > version 56. > > _______________________________________________ > nodejs mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected] >
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