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[Remko van der Vossen <wich AT stack.nl>]

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.

Regards,

Remko van der Vossen

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