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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 it's ok |
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here ... |
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i cant say that all apps will work 100% but the apps i *did* try worked just |
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fine ... those include media-video/mplayer, media-sound/synaesthesia, and a |
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few games ... |
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what *might* break is that the new svgalib uses /dev/svga to provide non-root |
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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, other |
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> than to bump all software that depends on the library in question with a |
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> revision to force a recompile to make it work again post-install. |
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nope, just an ewarn + revdep-rebuild ... and svgalib (1) doesnt affect nearly |
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as many apps as say python or openssl and (2) should work anyways ... |
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if this is the only worry people have i'll go ahead and move it to stable |
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tonight (and then field bugs this weekend :x) |
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-mike |
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