* Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Monday 07 August 2006 21:44, 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. > > we provide meta packages (X/kde/gnome/etc...) for the split packages > so users can just emerge 1 package to get them all > > on one machine i like to run kde so the meta packages are a godsend ... > yet on another machine, i only want k3b/kmail and nothing else so the > split packages too are a godsend :)
Very good point. What's best here is a matter of personal taste or individual system requirements. Gentoo's strength comes from respecting those user wishes. If you stop doing that, you aren't better then all these Evil-Binary-Distros (TM) ;-P cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
