On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:50 -0700, alan wrote: > 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? none of those, the only thing changing is the *internal* X abi -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
