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.
>
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