Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux and Standards
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 23:49:47 EET
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:25, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On the other hand changes in Wine's memory management broke all VST
> > support under Wine on May 24th at 8:30 PM. If you left work at 6PM
> > then when you arrived the next morning that capability was literally
> > broken overnight. ;-)
>
> This is exactly the expected behavior when you blindly update packages
> from cron in the middle of the night. Sorry, Wine did not break your
> system, you did.
Not necessarily. You can upgrade the package with full knowledge of what
you are doing, read all the release notes, and then discover that
something in that package breaks some other thing, and that the "Quality
Control Division" missed it :-) It happens, not very often of course.
-- Fernando
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