I think that Xorg 7.1 for FC5 should be available through yum repository like now is AIGLX for FC5:
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From: alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:50:44 PM
Subject: Re: Pull off AIGLX repoistory?
From: alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:50:44 PM
Subject: Re: Pull off AIGLX repoistory?
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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> 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?
--
"I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and
stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some
things come at too high a price. I would look up into his beady eyes and
wave, like this... (*wave*!). Can your associates arrange that for me,
Mr. McBride?"
- Vir "Flounder" Kotto, Sr. VP, IBM Empire.
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