On Tuesday 05 January 2010 17:59:31 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> OK, here's the situation AFAICT, based on one of my systems where 
> digikam from epel is installed:
> 
> digikam (digikam-0.9.5-1.el5.x86_64 from epel) requires libkexiv2.so.3 .
> ŧhis is provided by the epel libkexiv2-0.1.7-1.el5.x86_64 , which 
> requires libexiv2.so.4 .
> The older rpmforge exiv2-0.17.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64 version provides this, 
> while the newer exiv2-0.19-1.el5.rf.x86_64 provides libexiv2.so.6 
> instead (note the version difference).
> 
> Therefore installing digikam from epel pulls in the older exiv2 from 
> rpmforge, instead of the newer one (which would not meet the libkexiv2 
> dependency, hence libkexiv2 and digikam could not be installed).
> 
> Conclusion: your system is fine as is, if you want digikam you need to 
> keep the older exiv2. Skipping the exiv2 update is ok. It will only be a 
> problem if at some point you want to install something that requires the 
> newer libexiv2.so.6 .
> 
Thanks for the explanation.  OK - I've lived with this for quite some time, 
without any obvious problems, so I'll just go on ignoring the 'skip' warnings.

Anne
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