On June 08, 2007 at 02:57PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xorg is now 180-230 some-odd tiny packages (ports)
instead of the old -clients, -server, -libraries blobs.
It seems to work okay, and minor updates are far less
strenuous. I give it five years to either prove itself or
all the
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:34:38PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
I am not totally convinced. If one small package is updated that is
depended on by 10 other package that in turn are depended on by a like
number of other packages, what has been really gained by breaking
everything into small
In response to Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:34:38PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
I am not totally convinced. If one small package is updated that is
depended on by 10 other package that in turn are depended on by a like
number of other packages, what has been
In response to Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On June 08, 2007 at 02:57PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xorg is now 180-230 some-odd tiny packages (ports)
instead of the old -clients, -server, -libraries blobs.
It seems to work okay, and minor updates are far less
strenuous. I give it five
On June 08, 2007 at 05:12PM Kris Kennaway wrote:
[snip]
FYI, if you'd used an upgrade tool like portupgrade it would have been
seamless because portupgrade keeps the old library version around for
precisely this reason.
Actually, I ended up using portmanager with the '-p' flag to force
