28 Jul
2006
28 Jul
'06
10:51 a.m.
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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