Merged proto package

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 23:14 Tue 06 Apr     , Keith Packard wrote:
> The people we're trying to reach with this are those people building 
> From source.
> 
> For people like me, who really can't rely on a distribution to be up 
> to date enough, I end up installing protocol headers. Of course, they 
> go stale if I don't keep on top of them, and so I get accidental 
> version skew. Reducing the number of packages I have to track from 20 
> to 1 would avoid this almost entirely.

You should clearly be using a distribution that supports live-source 
packages. =) It's one command for me to update the X server and all its 
dependencies to current git.

No doubt this same problem affects many other large projects that also 
work around problems with their developers' package managers. Would it 
be better to get your package manager to add this feature?

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com