Improving Xorg

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On Thursday 29 June 2006 14:08, conon wrote:
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:48, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:28:08AM +0800, conon wrote:
> > > So you suggest that Xorg abandon the user who wishes to compile X11
> > > themselves ?
> > 
> > If you wish to compile the _entirety_ of X11, because your distribution
> > for some reason doesn't have any of it packaged, or you just want to do
> > it for fun, then you're crossing the line from user into developer.
> > 
> > > Every on seems to only think that because they like the new format
> > > then everyone should like it.
> > 
> > After a ton of initial pain, most developers seem to really like it, and
> > feel it makes their lives easier.  Packagers are almost unanimous in
> > loving it.  In terms of people who build X, X developers and packagers
> > are the stated audience.
> 
> I use LFS because I wasnt getting what I needed from a distribution.
> Just because I compile from source doesnt make me a developer.

Tried T2, http://t2-project.org?

> If you no longer care about the end user - why develop?

We care about end-users and thus make their single package, e.g.
driver, libX11 update smooth.

> Who is more important - the packager - or the end user?

Both, and both crouds love modular packages and find grained feature or
security updates.

> There are users who compile from source - for one reason or another.

Yes, Gentoo, T2 and others long have modular X11 and are more than
happy with it ... ,-)

-- 
René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)
            http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rebe.name
            +49 (0)30 / 255 897 45