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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 ready to go stable on all archs
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:04:41
Message-Id: 1097532277.30232.49.camel@helen.science.oregonstate.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 ready to go stable on all archs by Luke-Jr
1 On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:58, Luke-Jr wrote:
2 > On Monday 11 October 2004 9:52 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 15:50, Daniel Goller wrote:
4 > > > Guess it is simpler to block on ati-drivers till ati-drivers are fixed.
5 > > > But to push 6.8.0-r1 out for anyone to upgrade knowing it will cause
6 > > > chaos doesn't seem wise.
7 > >
8 > > How exactly would you like me to do this? I can't block below a specific
9 > > version, because I don't know whether the next one released will work. I
10 > > can't block all versions, because then they'll never be able to install
11 > > one that does work.
12 > Any reason you can't block all versions and have the ati-drivers people modify
13 > the block to include a specific version once one works?
14
15 Think: Will that help people who have already emerged an ebuild that
16 blocks all versions? I'd need a revision bump to change it, which is a
17 complete waste.
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19 Donnie Berkholz
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Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 ready to go stable on all archs Daniel Goller <morfic@g.o>