Comment 6 for bug 1121179

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1121179] Re: Ubuntu 12.04.2 alternate AMD 64 ISO image Feb 10 installing mesa 8.0.4 not 9.0.0 - LTS quantal

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:02:19PM -0000, Dave Lentz wrote:
> (though I still don't understand why using a backported/updated kernel
> should automatically bump/update mesa version).

Because it's a complete hardware enablement stack. You're not supposed to
mix and match components from different stacks, and doing so is untested and
not guaranteed.