On 27/03/15 18:33, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 27/03/15 18:01, Steve Gaarder wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> One thing that is different from EPEL is that ELRepo's el7.1 packages
>>> that are _not_ backward compatible will not install on systems < 7.1.
>>> yum will complain. My understanding is that EPEL packages do not have
>>> such 'Requires'.
>>>
>> Au contraire - right now, for example, I cannot install marco from EPEL:
>>
>
> Packages presumably vary, but the bugzilla comments indicated that the
> only real condition now for EPEL is compatibility with RHEL 7.1;  what
> concerned me was that there was no warning during installation that
> qtwebkit would fail.  In fact the failure was total, but with other
> (hypothetical) packages it might not have been so clearcut.
>

 From the bugzilla report relating to the original qtwebkit problem, today,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202735
--- Comment #11 from Rex Dieter <[log in to unmask]> ---
Marking ON_QA, recent builds add a versioned glib2 runtime dependency