Re: [mongoose@users.sourceforge.net: X upgrade policy]
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:38:06AM -0500, Terry 'Mongoose' Hendrix II wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Seth Arnold wrote:
>
> >Terry, a few quick comments -- first, Utah-glx is in the past. While
> >their work may have been nifty at one point, and for people running
> >3.3.x perhaps necessary, XF 4.0.1 has a *much* easier GL system.
>
> This is about poor forethought. I complained months ago about how the X
> team was moving to lock out utah-glx. Utah has more users than DRI - why
> do this? I woke up from an overnight upgrade of gtk to find my X install
> made unusable.
Well, it was also a poor forethought for you to not issue a package hold on
the XFree packages. It's easy enough to use dselect to request that a
package not be upgraded... (hint: = key)
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