Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:57:40 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2... Message-ID: <d7195cff0706081157q35a3d745l5ad5d30f952fe694@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <294439d20706081139l241ec4b6p83347ccb9d5847bc@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/06/07, Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> 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. -- --
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