Re: X11 and "surrounding technology" - was Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:55:54AM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: 
> I'm not sure who lumped together X11 and "surrounding technology".
> You seem to want XFree86 to cover both; I'm a luddite who
> wants XFree86 to do X11, and let someone else layer "surrounding 
> technology" on top.

Well, XFree86 already includes lots of things I'd call surrounding
technology. I don't think xterm or xedit are really part of X in any
meaningful sense, for example.

Umbrella projects tend to absorb all kinds of random stuff, just
because it's more efficient. As long as it's kept modular, there's
really no reason they shouldn't absorb stuff. GNOME the umbrella
project probably contains more modules that aren't in the 
"GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform Release" than modules that *are*
in it. (That release is probably what you think of as "GNOME")

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