some closure on the xorg updates issue

[dragoran]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>   
>> I have linked several discussions about regressions in updates so do 
>> verify your claims against bugzilla reports and list discussions.
>>     
>
> None of these have anything to do with the KDE 3.5.0 upgrade to FC4.
> The first link is an issue which is claimed to be new in FC5, which if true 
> would make it a regression from release to release, not in an update. The KDE 
> menu (aka. "no control center") problem was due to a change in a 
> Fedora-specific patch in the FC5 (FC4 too?) update, not the (minor) version 
> update. The "no audiocd" etc. issues were due to a one-time build-system 
> change. Any rebuild, even a security fix with a backported patch, would have 
> exposed that. The only issue I can see in that list which was due to a (minor!) 
> KDE version update is the "no automount" problem, due to a Fedora-specific 
> patch (the HAL/DBUS patch) having needed an update for the new KDE. And then 
> there's the kernel issue, but I think (and hope!) nobody is seriously 
> considering not keeping the kernel up to date anymore.
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm not a Fedora developer, if in doubt, believe Than Ngo, not 
> me. :-) )
>         Kevin Kofler
>
>   
this kde update also broke gaim (because it used arts by default)