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W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for |
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> developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users. |
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Definitely not true. The X.Org 7.1 release shared the vast majority of |
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packages with 7.0, so there were very few upgrades -- just a few drivers |
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and the server. In the monolithic world, you would've needed to rebuild |
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the whole thing for that. Installing it is a one-time cost, upgrading |
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goes on forever. And the security updates that already occurred proved |
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modularization well worth the effort -- often, just a single package |
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(the server) needed an update. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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