splitting the server

[Alan Coopersmith]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'd like to split off the server into smaller packages. 
> One of the first steps: move out the xf86-hw utils into separate
> packages. Then move out several extensions, etc, etc.
> 
> What do you think about this ?

We tried to split the hw/xfree86/utils out of the server when we
did modularization but it wasn't possible without moving much of
the other hw/xfree86/* code into shared libraries and agreeing to
an ABI for them.    Right now too much code is shared via static
linking with the server itself.

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