X.org updates change dozens of packages
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 26 23:49:45 UTC 2005
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:15:14AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Every couple of days now, apt-get upgrade tells me that
> somewhere on the order of 70 packages -- all of them related
> to various x.org drivers -- have changed. Have all those
> packages actually changed, or is there some build-dependency
> problem? If the latter, is there any way to factor out bits
> of those drivers so that small changes to the xorg package
> itself don't require me to download all the associated
> drivers?
Yes, that work is already in progress, but wasn't completed in time for the
Breezy feature freeze. You'll notice that, for example, these updates do
not include the font packages, as they previously did. While the number of
packages has increased, you are already downloading less data than for an
equivalent update in Hoary.
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- mdz
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