Kevin Kofler wrote: It's because to access the functionality I want, the maintainer says it requires to change the major version of the current F16 package and further said, "[he's] not changing major versions in a major release without a really strong reason." I originally requested bochs-devel for the purpose of packing dolphin-emu, and I would figure it wasn't too much of a problem to make this change with F17 as it's still in alpha. I'm not too familiar with how bochs works/compiles, so I took his word for it.