Your missreading what I am saying.

1. I am not placing "demands"
2. I have pointed out the solution
3. I have pointed out the problem for gentoo as a distro
4. Everybodies requirements are different: unless devs get feedback on
whats important to users, how would they know.  I acknowledge that whats
important to devs is not neccessarily going to gel for the users, but
the fact that gentoo now does not have a usable desktop for a large part
of its user community should be a concern for all.

BillK



On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:30 -0400, xyon wrote:
> Placing demands on the devs who donate their time for this community is
> not exactly the way of going about it. Finding a way to help those devs
> is a better path to a solution. ;)
> 
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I'm using the workaround of manually deleting the problem patch during
> > the build.  
> > 
> > The problem for gentoo that I see is that with the removal of -r1 (and
> > xfree being the only viable alternative is not available either), gentoo
> > does not have a usable desktop for those actually using it in
> > production, so this should be viewed as a serious issue that requires
> > active resolution - just leaving this issue in place until we catch up
> > with upstream means this is going to become a running sore for gentoo.
> > 
> > We (the users) need a stable, secure, and working X.
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:03 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:59:21AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > > > Re the xorg-x11 GLSA 200509-07.  Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3?  The -r2
> > > > version is unusable for me because of this.
> > > > 
> > > > According to the bug its resolved, fixed upstream, but there is no
> > > > detail which versions of xorg it applies to.
> > > > 
> > > > BillK
> > > 
> > > Hi Bill,
> > > 
> > > -r3 is just a simple security bump from -r2, so it should have all the
> > > characteristics of -r2 except for that buffer overflow issue with pixmap
> > > memory requests.  So yeah, you'll still see black icons, but please do
> > > track the upstream bug:
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3781
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Seemant
> > -- 
> > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Home!
> 
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