It looks like I have to rebuild VLC for F12 Rawhide, since it's holding up yum update and its dependencies are too expansive to be worked around with --skip-broken. I kept hoping that Nicolas would do his duty but apparently it was in wain, while everything is being built, even Pidgin. The downside of this is that I have better things to do than compensating for an AWOL maintainer, but an upside exists too. It's past due that I learned all the fancy tools Fedora grew over the years, such as Mock. Also, if I somehow work this into Koji, fruits of my labour will be available to everyone.

UPDATE: It turns out I need to be a registered developer at RPMfusion before I can use the tools, so I just built it from an src.rpm, and so I'm in posession of vlc-core-1.0.0-0.11rc3.fc12.x86_64.rpm. It was a rather painless process, and remember that Gentoo users do it every day before breakfast.