So what next?

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:12:53PM -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> Not only is development and testing hard with a monolithic tree but so
> is distribution and installation. One of the biggest headaches with X we
> have here at Red Hat, and I believe this will be echoed by all the other
> major distributions, is that X is huge and wants to build and install as
> one enormous package. This creates all manner of problems, not only for
> our internal development, but also for deploying on thousands of
> installed systems.

Consider this an extremely strong echo from Debian; security updates in
particular are a nightmare. You fix something in Xfont and find yourself
rebuilding however many docs and fonts on a 60MHz Amiga, a 200MHz ARM,
et al, and then deploying huge updated packages to your install base. Not
pretty.

:) d, Debian X Strike Force hat on

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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