> On the one hand, there are some huge, monolithic packages like Xorg that have split in to many smaller, more independent packages. You should note that this

> On the one hand, there are some huge, monolithic packages like Xorg that have split in to many smaller, more independent packages. You should note that this is generally looked at as a bad move. Creating two separate packages for each protocol (one headers, one implementation), separate packages for each individual app etc. lead to a lot of unnecessary overhead for everybody (developers, release managers, package maintainers etc). Over the last couple years people have suggested to merge some of the packages back into the main xserver repository.