Trying to make sense of all the X modular packages

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Looking at the full list of packages in X now and the list seems a bit
> overwhelming.   In an attempt to help people make sense of the new modular
> world, I've made a list of the packages and tried to organize them into
> logical groups to help users and packagers figure out which ones they want.
> For now I've left out all the fonts & drivers, hoping it's obvious which of
> those you want to install.

Thanks for doing this.

As for later releases of "modular" X.org X11 as a whole: will all the 
individual source tarballs be touched? new CVS tags? new version numbers?

I am hoping that I can upgrade modular X.org six months from now and not 
have to repackage over 30 packages again. I hope that only the downloads 
will change will have actual content or code changes and that source that 
never changes could just be reused. For example, if xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.1 
never changes, I hope I don't have to repackage it.

In other words, will X11R7.1 require repackaging of every component?

And next question: anyone working on README files? We have 30+ source 
downloads that don't have any description what so ever. (Even most headers 
aren't descriptive enough to get an idea what they are for.)

  Jeremy C. Reed

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