From: J.O. Aho (trizt@iname.com)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 17:18:26 CET
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael George wrote:
>> I haven't even got the modular Xorg to work and I have tried on three
>> different arches (x86 ppc sparc). I really wouldn't spend to much thought
>> yet on the modular Xorg in Gentoo, it's still masked outover that is's
>> marked as unstable. There are ebuilds that should be automatically emerge
>> and still don't, you need to do that manually after you have installed the
>> modular Xorg.
>> Something that has surprised me is that Gentoo don't give people the
>> option to use the monolithic Xorg 6.9.
>
> The difference isn't just with gentoo, xorg is going modular rather than
> monolithic.
Xorg will have two trees, the modular 7 which will be constantly updated
and the monolithic 6.9 which will just updated when major updates has come
into the code. Today the 6.9 and 7 are the same.
I think for most users the the monolithic version will be what they need
and not a hughe amount of small ebuilds that will sometimes have a rapid
update rate. Sadly the Gentoo developers don't give the user this option,
in the same manner as they give the option for users to use kde
(monoluithic) or kde-meta (modular).
--
//Aho
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