* Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > 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.
ACK. It's not only an big improvement to maintenability, also stops wasting resources. For example: I've got several headless server systems where I now have to run some X applications. I only need xlib (and its deps) on this system, not the whole X distribution. In a monolithic world, I would have to install *everything*, from server to tools, just for getting some libs. The modularization is an *huge* improvement. Installations get smaller and faster and development is much easier. 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
