The idea was that people who don't have XFree86 4.1 or later can just use the Extras package to upgrade their X server, instead of upgrading all of X.
This worked pretty well in the past for people who had version problems with the X server being too old for the binary package. - Frank On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 02:13, José Fonseca wrote: > On 2002.04.19 19:16 Frank Worsley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting repeated emails from people asking for an extras package. > > Anybody want to volunteer to make one? All it needs to contain is an > > updated X server binary and a shell script that installs the binary and > > does suid root on it. > > > > - Frank > > > > I can add a script to build such a thing when the snapshots are being > made. But what's the purpose of such a extras package? Excluding the > driver modules the X server in the DRI CVS isn't changed except when is a > new X release. > > José Fonseca _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
