[elrepo] Installation of acroread will pull in the ATI graphics driver from ELRepo

[Phil Perry]

On 15/03/11 23:25, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 15/03/11 20:30, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Akemi Yagi wrote on 03/15/2011 04:02 PM:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This issue was first reported in the CentOS forum:
>>>
>>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30539&forum=14
>>>
>>> On RHEL-6 (or SL-6), if you run 'yum install acroread' with elrepo
>>> enabled, that would pull in kmod-fglrx and fglrx-x11-drv.
>>
>> This will not happen if mesa-libGL is already installed, at least with
>> the Adobe AdobeReader_enu package.
>>
>
> $ rpm -qp --requires AdbeRdr9.4.2-1_i486linux_enu.rpm | grep libGL
> libGL.so.1
>
> The issue is that both mesa-libGL and fglrx-x11-drv(-32bit) provide
> libGL.so.1.
>
> When elrepo is installed (and enabled), it appears to take priority over
> packages from RHN for satisfying dependencies.
>

Interestingly, the nvidia packages also satisfy that dependency in 
providing libGL.so.1, so I wonder why yum picks the fglrx package over 
any of the nvidia packages? Perhaps it's just alphabetical in the case 
of many packages meeting an uninstalled dependency, all other things 
being equal.