On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Fernando de Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote: > > With much respect, IMHO, as Xorg is not anymore monolithic, i.e., is > modular, it would be good keeping doing upgrades, for example, once a > month, as several distros do upgrades continuously.
Just to let you know, we used to do this when Xorg first changed to modular and it blew up in our faces immediately. The reason being that you really don't want to update a package that depends on new protocol or changes ABI or something like that (ours were compositeproto and libXcomposite). X.org doesn't make an effort at maintaining a stable distribution of packages, it just syncs them once a year or so. Only the xserver gets continual stable maintenance and should definitely be updated within the same series. That said, I think patch level updates (x.y.z to x.y.z+1) for the rest of the modules should be fine and probably recommended since they usually contain bug fixes. If you find yourself doing minor level updates (x.y.z to x.y+1.z) to the server, protos or libraries, you're almost certainly going to break something. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
