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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Christian Mertes <c_mertes AT t-online.de>:
> That's not my point. I'm fine with two spells for stable and
> devel X. It's just that the "devel" linux changes to stable,
> too, when stable is newer than the prepatch versions. It didn't
> some time ago IIRC and I really appreciate it does so now. I
> just wanted to suggest the X spells to adopt this philosophy
> (devel is the newest X available, unless you want CVS and
> stable, well it's the latest stable). There's no point in using
> an old unstable version when you can have a new stable one, is
> there?

The problem is that some don't like the license of the new XFree86, so
xfree86-devel is the latest "safe" license version of XFree86, with 
xfree86-4.3
being the latest "safe" stable release. So in that context it's setup as 
you're
thinking it should be.

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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