Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Opening an ebuild and reading it must be hard. > > Not what I asked. I'm talking about what an user can expect to get. > You don't expect every user to look trough each ebuilt, seriously ? > > And, in case of Xorg, the individual needs may very deeply. > Some applications need just Xlib, some Xaw, others maybe some > extensions, etc. > > If you would put evrything in one monolithic package you would, > in the end, need one useflag per library. Or you loose the ability > to build the system for your special needs. Most times you'll get > much, much stuff you won't ever need. Is this compatible with > the gentoo philosphy ?
Please wake up. We have modular X.org now so just move along and b*tch about anything else. If you really feel like this is the best thing you can do for Gentoo development, please provide a procmail rule that kills all your -dev mails along with relevant replies. Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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