Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Jul 26 20:50:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:39, alan wrote:
>> That works for me.
>>
>> As long as I don't want any security updates.
>>
>> Actually I can work around it.  My concern is for those people who do not
>> read these lists and get caught unawares.  It is a REAL pain in the ass to
>> get hit by one of these sort of surprises out of the blue, especially this
>> far into a release.
>
> Well, you get what you pay for when you blindly apply updates.  If you really
> do care about having a stable platform, you usually pay attention to the
> updates your applying...

And if one of the critical security patches has dependancies on X, what 
then?

That brings up another unasked question...

When you update X 7.1, what else has to be updated?  I would assume GTK 
and Qt.  What else?  Anything using Xlib directly? All X apps?  Just how 
big of an update is that going to be?

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