Merged proto package

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:03:56AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:14:18AM +0200, ext Keith Packard wrote:
> >>
> >> In my ideal world, a user interested in trying out the latest driver
> >> bits for their video card would have to download two modules, the
> >> protocol headers and the X server/drivers. Just merging the protocol
> >> headers together gets us to four -- headers/server/video/evdev. Yeah,
> >> there are also kernel/mesa/libdrm issues, and we should figure out how
> >> to make that easier too.
> >>
> >
> > Well, the user would have also to care about some libraries: libpciaccess,
> > libXfont, libfontenc, libXau, libpixman, libxdmcp and etc, just to mention
> > some. So, besides protocol and drivers, do we intent to merge libraries back?
> 
> Only a couple libraries are used from the server, and ideally none of
> the X libraries. On the client side, people have this under control
> and often just use the libraries from their distro. I would hope the
> libraries don't get merged together

What stops them from being merged together, they will already be, to 
some large extent, in lock-step on the proto stuff. Update the proto 
amalgamut, and you're update the libs. It won't take long until the next 
person with the next "bright idea" comes along.

Luc Verhaegen