Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2...

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:57:40PM -0500, illoai at gmail.com wrote:

> On 08/06/07, Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole at 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.

In MS case, I would expect them to spell it 'holey' and introduce
some special incantations to be used with prescribed incense.

////jerry

> 
> I just hope we aren't still putting up with people using "impact"
> all the time, by then.
> 
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