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 1GAHpo-0002hs-4v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:00:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k782wj3w010383; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:58:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k782swtI015171 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:54:58 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.106] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7B664607 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44D7FC04.7040903@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:50:44 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax 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> In-Reply-To: <1155001487.5369.4.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 93a11c6a-1111-41a8-bc7f-1f101bd2ef07 X-Archives-Hash: 6d2ad3fc4462af1442d2106e5ea33678 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. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list