Re: XFCE 4.10

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:38:34PM +0200, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> I allways wondered why we can't download the entire distro in one go thus
> ensuring all the files/packages are in sync and working. Then either a
> xfce4-base package, xfce4-extras, xfce4-... whatever mega packages can be
> build and not 20 variants with their own patches etc.etc. Saves lots of update
> hassle and if there is a new distro file, just port that one instead of
> porting X other packages everywhere. See, Firefox is also one package and not
> 20!

The porting effort is much higher if you have one thing to port
instead of many, and you get some sense of progress earlier. Also, why
should we merge stuff if upstream has it separately?

For you as user, I understand that you don't care about that, if it
works ;)
 Thomas