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Timezone database update, please! in my country (Uruguay), we are not using summer time this year, but each and every computer system (Windows, Android, Apple) still changed last sunday to our UYST time (GMT-2) instead of staying in UYT (GMT-3). The IANA DB is updated, so could we please get Slackware up to date?
it has been granted in all stable releases and current
Any chance of having llvm bumped back to 3.6.2? The Unreal Engine doesn't compile against it (yet??). If i'm the only one having issues with it I guess it's no big deal, I don't mind modifying it on my PC. Thought I'd ask though.
There seems to be something wrong with MPlayer in -current, some flac files doesn't work, but they do with mplayer from 14.1. (and yes.. they work with ffplay)
Any chance of having llvm bumped back to 3.6.2? The Unreal Engine doesn't compile against it (yet??). If i'm the only one having issues with it I guess it's no big deal, I don't mind modifying it on my PC. Thought I'd ask though.
This would affect much of X11 support especially OpenGL support through mesa.
Any chance of having llvm bumped back to 3.6.2? The Unreal Engine doesn't compile against it (yet??). If i'm the only one having issues with it I guess it's no big deal, I don't mind modifying it on my PC. Thought I'd ask though.
The application should be patched instead of llvm downgrade.
LLVM downgrade would remove opengl 4+ support for open drivers.
not so simple ones due to packages depending on them
cryptsetup 1.6.7 -> 1.6.8 (2015-09-08)
curl 7.41 -> 7.45 (2015-10-07)
libdrm 2.4.64 -> 2.4.65 (2015-09-14)
libgcrypt 1.6.3 -> 1.6.4 (2015-09-08) and team (libassuan, pinentry, etc)
Not a package upgrade per se (and maybe a stupid idea) but would it be useful to gradually change slackbuilds (when the slackbuild is modified due to a new version) to install documentation in just /usr/doc/packagename without its version ?
Many times during upgrades there are many messages "removing /usr/doc/foo-1.23/file" which isn't actually true because the same file is installed in the foo-1.24 directory. Sometimes true "removed files" messages can be lost amidst these usr/doc messages.
I didn't check it thoroughly but a quick test shows that packages which have two versions (like gnupg, gtk, etc) install documentation in different directories so there wouldn't be a problem if the version is removed (gnupg and gnupg2, gtk+2 and gtk+3, etc). Only a few packages use the same /usr/doc/name directory (db42,db44,db48 use /usr/doc/db-version directory, gstreamer packages use /usr/doc/gst-foo-version directory). These packages a) contain pretty much identical documentation and b) the directory can be changed to follow their package names (/usr/doc/db42 and /usr/doc/gstreamer0 directory for example).
Not something critically important of course but anyone care to discuss it ?
I wonder since Mesa got Nine support going if enabling the Intel Gallium drivers for i915 and ilo would be wise since Nine requires the Gallium API to be in usage with the driver? I know ilo can be enabled/disabled with the switch in xorg.conf option DRI="ilo".
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