modular -> monolithic

Russell Shaw rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Wed Jan 23 03:01:39 PST 2008


Egbert Eich wrote:
> Dave Airlie writes:
>  > > This whole "partial" remonolithicalisation seems to not address the real
>  > > issue, which is a wrong general mindset, and instead this equals
>  > > sticking ones head in the sand and hoping that things magically go
>  > > away.
...

The way it should've been done in the first place is to leave it all monolithic,
but have a script to download only the parts of X and drivers required.

Only the top level would've needed a configure.ac

After a period of hacking had been done, it would be easy to download the
rest of the monolith around what you'd already had, then do a complete build
to see what's broken.



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