[SM-Discuss] Last call for xorg-modular testing before integration
David Kowis
dkowis at shlrm.org
Fri Aug 29 09:00:53 EDT 2008
Quoting Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie at codemages.net>:
> On 10:23:16 2008-08-29 Remko van der Vossen <wich at stack.nl> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:09:04PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> > I like -profile packages, others don't. I like not having to know each
>> > specific GNOME or KDE package to get a "normal" GNOME or KDE install.
>> > Therefore I like the xorg-profile (since I wrote it I'm a bit
>> > biased ;)) for installing X without having to know, in advance, what
>> > available drivers are, or that I even need to remember to specifically
>> > install a driver.
>>
>> Personally I don't like profile spells. But really, they're not in the
>> way. One can still the different needed spells manually if one so
>> wishes, disregarding the existence of a profile spell. So really I don't
>> see why it would need to go. It would be a problem for me if other
>> spells would depend on the profile spell instead of on particular
>> spells, other than for deprecation purposes of monolithic.
>>
>> One bone of contention I do have however is that apparently quite a few
>> spells still depend on server when they should depend on libs. It is
>> perfectly reasonable to have a server with X applications and X libs,
>> but without an X server, that is what XDMCP was conceived for.
>>
>
> The one thing I would modify to profile spells is that they would get
> dispeled after the cast... Since that would reduce cruft and because
> in a lot of cases profile spells don't get updated.
>
I don't think that's a good idea. People don't expect things to
dissappear after they've installed it. If they do a gaze version
xorg-profile, it should show up that it's installed. It's not like the
"cruft" of it is bad in any way. I think the alternative is much worse.
Of course, reading the rest of the thread, if we can accomplish the
same as xorg-profile with xorg-server, I'm happy with that.
--
David Kowis
Source Mage Linux - www.sourcemage.org
Liberty! - www.campaignforliberty.com
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