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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:48:17 -0500 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 16:56, Spider wrote: |
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> > Yes, Will you break already installed things like the careless |
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> > openmotif downgrade? |
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> the libraries maintain their links so you wont get library not found |
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> errors ... however, in terms of binary compatiblity, it seems that |
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> it's ok here ... |
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> i cant say that all apps will work 100% but the apps i *did* try |
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> worked just fine ... those include media-video/mplayer, |
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> media-sound/synaesthesia, and a few games ... |
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> what *might* break is that the new svgalib uses /dev/svga to provide |
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> non-root access to svga while the old one required you be root ;) |
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> > There currently exists no real framework for dealing with this, |
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> > other than to bump all software that depends on the library in |
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> > question with a revision to force a recompile to make it work again |
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> > post-install. |
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> nope, just an ewarn + revdep-rebuild ... and svgalib (1) doesnt affect |
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> nearly as many apps as say python or openssl and (2) should work |
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> anyways ... |
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> if this is the only worry people have i'll go ahead and move it to |
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> stable tonight (and then field bugs this weekend :x) |
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Yep, its actually my only real worry. I trust you've already dealt with |
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the other cases, so they won't really be an issue, or if they haven't |
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been found in the time that its been in ~, I doubt they will be common |
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or easy to deal with anyhow. :) |
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//Spider |
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