On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:30 +0100, "Carlos R. Mafra" said: > Why can't there be a 'Linus Torvalds' for Xorg accepting patches from various > maintainers and keeping the whole thing tied up? Why can't it mimic the > 'make menuconfig' way of selecting what to compile to have the guarantee that > the whole thing will simply work nicely together?
Feel free to do so. Note that you'll hit 2 problems: 1) In the kernel, the sysadmin can almost always get away with saying "I have no XYZ devices" or "I only have ext4 filesystems" or similar choices, and have the resulting kernel still support basically all the syscalls (unless you start going into CONFIG_EMBEDDED and doing some *major* surgury). Over on the X side of the fence, there aren't as many options that don't involve dropping major chunks of the functionality. You *sure* that nothing on your system depends on the XRandR extension? ;) 2) Lately, the X server is *already* highly modular and different components built from different source trees. 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