balsa conflict. (evo and libgtkhtml3)

[Jim Cornette]

John Dennis wrote:
>>Trying to Upgrade Evolution, Evolution-data-server and gtkhtml3. I get
>>the below popup using up2date.
>>
>>Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
>>balsa  2.2.0-1,FC3,2                     requires libgtkhtml-3.1.so.10
> 
> 
> balsa had linked against libgtkhtml-3.1.so.10 and evolution against
> libgtkhtml-3.1.so.11.
> 
> This is because balsa was built into fc3-HEAD which has release 10 of gtkhtml
> and fc3 has release 11. balsa was built in fc3-HEAD. It appears builds in
> fc3-HEAD are exported to rawhide and thus rawhide has an inconsistent package
> set, some from fc3 and some from fc3-HEAD. I don't know how to resolve this
> build and export inconsistency that appears to have occurred (it appears the
> buildroots between fc3 and fc3-HEAD are different but fc3-HEAD builds are still
> being exported to rawhide and fc3 is locked).
> 
> In the near term I think you have two possible work arounds.
> 
> remove balsa since it does not appear you're using it (rpm -e balsa) this will
> remove the dependency on release 10 the library.
> 
> or
> 
> do an install rather than an upgrade which should allow both releases the
> libgtkhtml library to simultaneosuly coexist thus satisfying both dependencies.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 


As long as this is planned for resolution for the next test release, I 
see no problem on my end. This conflict and some discussions on the 
devel list made me curious about balsa. I use neither evo or balsa for 
email. I'll probably check out balsa since it looks like a fairly decent 
  GUI email program.

Thanks for the explanation. (mozilla user regularly)

Jim

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