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Your missreading what I am saying. |
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1. I am not placing "demands" |
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2. I have pointed out the solution |
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3. I have pointed out the problem for gentoo as a distro |
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4. Everybodies requirements are different: unless devs get feedback on |
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whats important to users, how would they know. I acknowledge that whats |
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important to devs is not neccessarily going to gel for the users, but |
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the fact that gentoo now does not have a usable desktop for a large part |
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of its user community should be a concern for all. |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:30 -0400, xyon wrote: |
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> Placing demands on the devs who donate their time for this community is |
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> not exactly the way of going about it. Finding a way to help those devs |
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> is a better path to a solution. ;) |
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> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > I'm using the workaround of manually deleting the problem patch during |
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> > the build. |
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> > The problem for gentoo that I see is that with the removal of -r1 (and |
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> > xfree being the only viable alternative is not available either), gentoo |
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> > does not have a usable desktop for those actually using it in |
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> > production, so this should be viewed as a serious issue that requires |
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> > active resolution - just leaving this issue in place until we catch up |
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> > with upstream means this is going to become a running sore for gentoo. |
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> > |
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> > We (the users) need a stable, secure, and working X. |
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> > |
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> > BillK |
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> > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:03 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:59:21AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > > > Re the xorg-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? The -r2 |
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> > > > version is unusable for me because of this. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > According to the bug its resolved, fixed upstream, but there is no |
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> > > > detail which versions of xorg it applies to. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > BillK |
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> > > |
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> > > Hi Bill, |
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> > > |
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> > > -r3 is just a simple security bump from -r2, so it should have all the |
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> > > characteristics of -r2 except for that buffer overflow issue with pixmap |
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> > > memory requests. So yeah, you'll still see black icons, but please do |
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> > > track the upstream bug: |
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> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3781 |
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> > > |
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> > > Thanks, |
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> > > |
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> > > Seemant |
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> > -- |
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> > William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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> > Home! |
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