From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 18:57:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F1A16A46C for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:57:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F7013C458 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:57:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so1162250uge for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:57:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WaA7YNMo8RqVW06Bddrwxp7zAKROpNVxW1U5GJ1bnH3kLhLTVeWNtbia+xjhAfgz1mIjRQ4/CRsNYtjbsKQm4G0mX1eRXIT57C4EY5bhP6biNjbe+QZ531CThBfFWmeFYZnowAqLPc6ePibEOb7Ae64HAJf6JMh5XabZb7F5d4o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lww65DGzGzeEqoIQceXU66ZvNSZhETVKp5Qa+GxWUzeGHvIPc0LXcMQIciUcZsaACvvoTwiplAKwIKKRV/jTWu8oiaf7vNKfujOQiKpZMdNolC0lWRabWgMRgejX2w0uSVzT2rLbxHMbskH66w/hcikytaYIoF3Bd7QZOMrRb78= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr5991832bue.1181329060042; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.12 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 11:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:57:40 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Amarendra Godbole" In-Reply-To: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:57:42 -0000 On 08/06/07, Amarendra Godbole wrote: . . . > Initially I had about 230 packages installed, and after the upgrade > the number has gone up to 450! Lot of these seem to be X related > packages. > > Does xorg 7.2 have more dependencies, and hence so many ports were installed? xorg is now 180-230 some-odd tiny packages (ports) instead of the old -clients, -server, -libraries blobs. It seems to work okay, and minor updates are far less strenuous. I give it five years to either prove itself or all the developers to go mad and sacrifice their firstborn in some wicked ritual to the sun-god. Failure or not, the "modularity" will be adopted by microsoft sometime around 2013, who will announce it as "The First Commercial Product to Use a Wholley Modular Codebase" except they won't spell "Wholley" with as much style. I just hope we aren't still putting up with people using "impact" all the time, by then. -- --