modular -> monolithic

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Matthias Hopf wrote:

> On Jan 23, 08 10:09:35 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> I'm confused about why anyone would want to implement a custom package
>> manager purely for Xorg. That seems like another maintenance burden for
>
> Package manager?!?
> We're talking about a build system...
> That it should be able to fetch code is different from a package
> manager, because we're talking about live git updates here. I don't
> think rpm can do that :-P
>
>> something we don't actually want to be involved with, just like imake.
>
> imake had been horribly system dependent etc.
> We're talking about something that is actually quite small, it just has
> to be written (or extended, because many people already use something
> similar).
>
>> There are plenty of package managers already. I know Gentoo's can pretty
>> easily do almost everything in the above list, using live git, because
>> that's what I do.
>
> Ok, then Gentoo's is probably something we call a "Eierlegende
> Wollmilchsau" in Germany (sorry, probably no translation possible).
>
> It just depends, whether the necessary configuration for this package
> manager is actually smaller than the bash or perl script doing the
> same...
>
> Matthias
>
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I don't understand why people can't just git clone what they need and 
build.  It's not that hard.  Granted I haven't built xserver/drivers/etc 
in about 6 months but back then it wasn't that hard.

Jeremy