Merged proto package

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>
> Looks like comments on the xproto package have tapered off; I'll give
> everyone another chance, but then I'll go ahead and create a new
> xorg-level 'xproto' repository with the current bits.

Keith, I just noticed that you moved the xproto.pc file from x11proto
to the top-level. I think this is a bad idea unless you change all the
libraries to not check for xproto (which they do now). This will cause
people that don't know better to rebuild Xlib and snowball out to all
their packages when the xproto version gets bumped (which will be
often in a merged scenario).

Let's just avoid this by making the top level called xorg-proto.pc or
something and keep xproto.pc tied to just the bare X headers. Since no
packages are using the merged proto package, now is the right time to
make a new name instead of overloading a widely used name. Since the
server is the only place that cares about the merged headers, it makes
sense to change to the new name there and allow all the other packages
to carry on as if nothing ever happened.

--
Dan