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From: zeleznik@cs.utah.edu (Mike Zeleznik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: vt100 broken after patches
Keywords: patches
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.160134.10832@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 9 Jul 90 22:01:34 GMT
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In article <1990Jul9.162841.26541@caen.engin.umich.edu> jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) writes:
>... I then installed the following patches for 10.2:
>
> [list of 30 or so patches...]
>
>... Any ideas why this would break vt100?

My feeling about patches is to only install what you ABSOLUTELY NEED, else
you are asking for trouble.  (If I'm off base on this one, please let me
know).  If you really needed all those patches, then I guess you had no
choice.

After all, each patch fixes a particular problem, but can not have been
tested well within the entire system.  In order to be so, it would have to
wait til the next release and all its beta testing.  Thus, while it may fix
one problem, it may well cause another; and certainly the interaction of
LOTS of these relatively untested things only increases the odds of more
problems which could really seem unrelated to the patches.

Just my opinions...
Mike

  Michael Zeleznik              Computer Science Dept.
                                University of Utah
  zeleznik@cs.utah.edu          Salt Lake City, UT  84112
                                (801) 581-5617