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Mystery clearedMystery clearedPosted Mar 21, 2006 5:27 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Xorg-server 1.0.2 security fix release by jg Parent article: Xorg-server 1.0.2 security fix release Generally, many/most distros have been reluctant to update a single package from the set generated from the X "tarball from hell", resulting in you getting every package for a single fix in one program... Aha, that's the reason why the urmpmi (or yum, apt-get...) upgrades for some small X11 bugfix always re-download clearly unrelated things, like font packages. I had long wondered why the distros I use (Mandriva and various RHEL-derivatives) are so wasteful.
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