On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Piruthiviraj Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does firefox pulls these packages as dependency? > > liberation-fonts-common noarch 1.05.1.20090721-5.el6 sl 20 k > liberation-sans-fonts noarch 1.05.1.20090721-5.el6 sl 274 k > > Before firefox 10.0.8-1, firefox didn't have these liberation packages as > dependencies. > Why now? > > Its the same story in CentOS too.
firefox requires xulrunner. xulrunner requires the above 2 packages. Apparently the font requirement was added recently as seen in the changelog of xulrunner: * Thu Aug 16 2012 Martin Stransky <[email protected]> 10.0.6-2 - Added fix for rhbz#770276 - Firefox segfaults, should have a font dependency More details can be found in the referenced BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770276 Akemi
