From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAP6v-00087g-HY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:46:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k78AjWSE007982; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:45:32 GMT Received: from forum.psychotherapie.org (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k78AfJL1019850 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:41:19 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by forum.psychotherapie.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id k78AfKSP015636 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:41:20 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id k78AecHK020253 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:40:38 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:40:37 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax Message-ID: <20060808104037.GD15665@nibiru.local> References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA1D2911@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> <20060804090130.GA15814@seldon> <20060807134802.GH25236@nibiru.local> <1155001487.5369.4.camel@localhost> <44D7FC04.7040903@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D7FC04.7040903@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Archives-Salt: 0be5faf3-ef8a-4a03-b73b-0654657f74a7 X-Archives-Hash: 1bdbafaa4805e7e86e45b4915a2a2446 * Donnie Berkholz 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