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  • From: "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Xorg-modular master bug
  • Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:53:01 +0200

On 18:32:45 2007-06-16 Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:31:44PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > I have created a master Bug #13845[0] to track getting xorg-modular
> > into test. Please file one bug per spell that is missing any of the
> > following:
> > * Descriptions in DETAILS
> > * Dependency descriptions
> > * Missing dependencies
> > * Missing check_if_xorg_modular* dependencies
> > * Incorrect symlinks (e.g. /etc/X11R6)
> > * Broken defaults
> > * Unclear descriptions
>
> Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere, are all these issues truly
> blockers?

Sadly they are...

> The spells will probably work fine with unclear descriptions,
> probably work ok without good descriptions too.

They would work but...

> I could be wrong, but I
> think users will be ok as long as its made clear what things are not yet
> finished and what to expect.

Then why was the main question when someone(even a guru) cast -modular:
"What does this thing do?"

> We have plenty of facilities to tell the
> user what to expect. Who knows, maybe some of them will submit patches.
>

So far got 0 patches and there's more than 2-3 users that use -modular
outside of the gurus


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