Bootstrapping X.Org (was Call Monday 24 Jan 2005)

[Egbert Eich]

Daniel Stone writes:
 > 
 > Sure, but my understanding of most of these operating systems is that
 > the packagers make ports and other general packages.  I can see the
 > utility of a top-level Makefile and am not disputing it, but I just
 > don't think it will be quite that widely-used.

Maybe not that widely - but there are always people who want to pull
sources from the origin and build everthing more or less from scratch.
I can think of several usage cases - non of those is maintstream, but
together they may be a considerable number.

Cheers,
	Egbert.