Leaving?
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jul 28 15:51:45 UTC 2006
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:02:41AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> I keep hearing this argument, that the packages for the involved drivers
>> can be made to conflict with the update. Which in essence will deprive
>> all but the most technical of our users from security updates. So this
>> is a moot argument. ? Deprive all but the most technical of our users
>> from security updates is almost as bad as completly breaking their system.
>
> So you do deprive everyone of needed X fixes, or let a few people suffer
> until Nvidia update their driver and someone repackages it.
>
> Which one ?
Updating to 7.1 will also prod them into actually releasing the new set of
drivers.
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