RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 19:11 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:48:55 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > One of the benefits of the modularized X.Org X11R7, is that it makes it
> > much easier for us to provide individual driver updates without having to
> > release the entire 150Mb monolithic X release.
> 
> Why not merge in the SUSE support for patch RPMs into the Fedora rpm? That
> would solve the same problem.

actually not really. What that solves is the download size for "small
changes". It doesn't solve the build time. It doesn't solve the testing.
It doesn't REALLY solve it either. The moment all components are on
different release schedules (which is good; X was helt back for years
due to unified schedules for all components together) you get a lot of
churn on the whole... while it might be only a few highly maintained
drivers and libs that churn. patchrpms are a nice hack to work around
some of the download issues, but it's not a real solution; it doesn't
encourage more frequent releases for real.

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