W.Kenworthy wrote:
My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users.
Definitely not true. The X.Org 7.1 release shared the vast majority of packages with 7.0, so there were very few upgrades -- just a few drivers and the server. In the monolithic world, you would've needed to rebuild the whole thing for that. Installing it is a one-time cost, upgrading goes on forever. And the security updates that already occurred proved modularization well worth the effort -- often, just a single package (the server) needed an update.
Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
