Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/term?

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Aron Griffis wrote:
> Drake Wyrm wrote:	[Sat Mar 12 2005, 12:47:49PM EST]
> 
>>Why was xterm pulled out of x11 in the first place?
> 
> 
> So it can be updated without needing to rebuild all of X.  Same reason
> that mozilla-launcher exists... so that you don't need to rebuild all
> of mozilla/firefox/thunderbird to get an updated script.

Thanks, Aron, for the great reply.

X is moving in the direction of modularization, and this is one of the
initial steps. Take a look at
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularizationWorkingGroup or
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularizationProposal if you're interested in
getting involved or learning more about it.

The basic idea is that there's absolutely no reason things that are
almost completely unrelated (except for both involving X) should be
interdependent and forced to version themselves together.
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