Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> 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
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