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 <sgallagh@redhat.com> 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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