[arch-dev-public] Dangerous dbus update for testing

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 17:38:16 EDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
>  >
>  >  On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:12 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
>  >  > Is there any better way to handle this? When this gets moved to extra,
>  >  > people -Syu first, read front page news later.
>  >  >
>  >  > I ask because I can't really think of a better way. Dang this is
>  >  > stupid.
>  >
>  >  The crashing xorg-server is in testing and will never make it to extra:
>  >  we're against the input hotplugging as it breaks too many things,
>  >  including a dbus restart. This warning is for testing users who also
>  >  have xorg-server from testing installed.
>
>  Ooooh. This makes it more clear. So when we get a sane xorg-server
>  that doesn't override keyboard layouts, then this won't be an issue. I
>  didn't understand that part. That makes much more sense now 8)

Ahh.

So why haven't we purged ourselves of this broken xorg-server yet? I
haven't seen too many +1 votes for it, and I've been staying away from
using it after the early feedback.

-Dan




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