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Re: Xorg and thinkpad x200s



well, I am not exactly an expert, but one thing is for sure: you must
keep your packages in sync with the release; otherwise unexpected
things can happen (i.e. core dumps everywhere, or worse things)

2010/1/10 Magnus Eriksson <magetoo%fastmail.fm@localhost>:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
>
>>> I assume that the precompiled binaries do not exist for these snapshots,
>>> so that I will have to compile everything from scratch. Am I right?
>
>> That's correct.
>
> Really?  I still have packages on my system that I compiled for 1.6.  I'm
> not on -current though, so has something happened recently?
>
>
> (So unless I am mistaken, the right answer is "yes, and no".  There aren't
> binary packages compiled for daily snapshots, but the ones for the latest
> release should work.  You'll get warnings that the package was compiled for
> a different version, but that's about it.)
>
>
> MAgnus
>
>


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