Re: XFree86 modularization
David Dawes <[email protected]>
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:26:58AM -0400, Noah Levitt wrote: >On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 23:13:31 -0700, Torrey T. Lyons wrote: >> >> Of course, this is just a specific example of problems from relying >> on external dependencies. If you have external dependencies, you are >> beholden to them with regards to which $PLATFORM's you can support >> and when bug fixes get integrated into your releases. > >Then maybe GNOME and KDE should distribute their own copies >of XFree86, right? Sure, why not? Most OS vendors/distros do, and nobody can credibly argue that this is a bad thing given that they have responsiblities to their customer base and their own release schedules and feature set priorities. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes