Backporting of Discover/KNS fixes

Eric Hameleers alien at slackware.com
Sun Feb 20 00:06:31 GMT 2022


On Sun, 20 Feb 2022, Ben Cooksley wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:14 AM Eric Hameleers <alien at slackware.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, interesting!
>>
>> Slackware ships Frameworks 5.91 at the moment of writing.
>> I checked the source tarball and can confirm that the required patch
>> is already applied in that release.
>> Also we ship Plasma 5.24.1 and as said in my previous email, we do not
>> include Discover in Slackware at all.
>>
>> So Ben: Slackware is good.
>>
>
> Thanks for confirming.
>
> For clarity - if you do not ship Discover, and it's update client in
> particular, then you are not affected by this and don't need to take
> further action (although confirmation that this is the case is still
> appreciated)
>
> Cheers,
> Ben

Indeed, Slackware does not ship Discover nor its update client. We 
simply do not want to offer any of this kind of functionality.

Cheers, Eric

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