[Nix-dev] x-updates

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 14:16:35 CEST 2013


On 08/02/2013 01:13 PM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> writes:
>> There should be nothing dangerous in x-updates now. Just the new LLVM,
>> and minor updates of libpng, Mesa, Qt. I would prefer to merge
>> x-updates soon (could be within a week). I would also include some GTK
>> introspection updates [#517] and perhaps some bugfix updates of
>> GTK-related libs and four minor X lib updates [X]... nothing
>> disruptive.
>
> Sounds great.
> I understand the need to combine changes that will trigger rebuilds of
> half the packages, but these cycles don't need to be > 2 weeks apart.

We already have several big hash-changing updates there, so I think we 
can afford it.

> Real upgrades that might break stuff or need user intervention are
> something different of course, but once we have "stable", the need for
> long-running feature branches declines further I think.
 >
>> Another option is to wait around a month and have it with Mesa-9.2
>> that should support the R600 LLVM stuff and contain many other new
>> features (I'm not sure how much useful that will be).
>
> I would just move that to the next cycle?
> Just keep this one for minors and unproblematic updates.

Yes, I certainly agree with this.

PS.: You seem to have replied to me only, not the list (but others can 
read what I cite now).


Vlada


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