[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gnome 3.2 in testing

rafael ff1 rafael.f.f1 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 17:03:06 EDT 2011


2011/10/3 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net>:
>
> It would appear that on Oct 2, Myra Nelson did say:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 18:40, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
>> > Since the version of xorg in question is "from testing" I suspect I've
>> > nothing to worry about and that it wouldn't wind up in the main repo while
>> > its still "incompatible". But since I know for a fact that my PC's built in
>> > Nvidia adapter is extremely incompatible with nouveau, I'd like to
>> > understand what and where this "Ignorepkg" is?
>>
>> Joe:
>>
>> Ignorepkg is in pacman.conf.
>
> Oh... Then I guess that for testing purposes users are expected to avoid
> updating those packages to the versions with compatibility issues with
> whatever the heck is currently being tested?
>
> In which case I'll fall back on my hope that it wouldn't make it to the
> main stream repos until the compatibility issue had been resolved...
>
> Thanks!
>
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I'm using proprietary nvidia driver with gnome 3.2.0 and it works
without problem, and I'm not using [testing].

-- Rafael


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