2011/9/15 Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <[email protected]>: > From distro package maintainer point of view I _love_ split drivers. It's so > much easier to packages these, rebuild when needed (one faulty, not building, > driver doesn't stop whole build process), easier to patch and backport fixes.
As a mandriva/mageia packager, I concur. Packaging/maintainer X11 is so much easier since it's been modularized. > Monolitic thing causes one build problem to stop building the whole thing. > Also with monolitic you need to find out which files are for which package (in > case if you want to split that into subpackages on rpm spec level for > example). Indeed in the old days, the 45mb tarballs were painful to maintain (on the distro side) what's more some distro will be stuck with some older x11-server due to proprietary globs not always being updated fast for new server ABIS whereas at the same time they would love to have the latest ATI/nouveau/intel drivers to support the latest HW. OK we shouldn't care but the reality is that it does matter for part of our end users :-( Of coure, the remerging is limited but I would still favor releasing the server and the drivers separately _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
