* It was Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:00:18PM -0500 when Andrew Gaffney said:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> >On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:15, John Davis wrote:
> >When was the last time someone suggest switching from gcc to icc as our
> >default compiler mid-release?  That's right... never.
> >
> >You're comparing apples to oranges.  I'm not talking about the
> >stabilization/change of a package *version* but rather of the change in
> >what many consider an essential function from one package to another. 
> >While it may seem like a small thing to you, when I install from a
> >2004.1 CD, I know that I'll end up with xfree when I go to install X. 
> >*THIS SHOULD NOT CHANGE*
> >We are all well aware that the *version* of xfree (or any other package,
> >for that matter) may change during the time since release, but the
> >actual packages themselves should be the same.  The only exception to
> >this would be in the case of the original package being completely
> >removed from the tree.
> 
> I don't understand why the switch from xfree to xorg-x11 is a big deal. 
> They are currently source and binary compatible. Almost everything (if not 
>  everything) works the same with xorg-x11 as it did with xfree.

Yes, thanks to the gentoo devs this is as easy as emerge -C xfree &&
emerge xorg-x11, but I'm sure a lot of work was done to make this
possible.

-- 
Sami Samhuri