[Xorg] Reorganizing the xc/include directory

[Keith Packard]

Around 11 o'clock on May 14, Eric Anholt wrote:

> However, I hope that the header packages get made a little more
> monolithic.  Most of the space in the *ext packages is taken up by the
> autotools stuff.  If we had maybe two sets of header packages -- xproto and
> xextensions (containing headers not included by libXext, as well), tops,
> that would be great.

The goal is to allow people to add new libraries and extensions without 
needing to negotiate with maintainers of existing packages.  I don't think 
we can do that with a 'monolithic' extension header package.

I know the protocol packages are silly looking, but I don't have a great 
alternative at this point.  Once we get jhbuild running, it shouldn't be a 
big deal for anyone aside from people adding new extensions, and for them, 
the feature of not having to get files into someone else's package should 
be worth the trouble (I know it would be for me).

We could bundle them with the C library, but that would mean someone 
building an X server would need to also build the C library, and that's 
not always desireable, so I'd really rather not do that.

-keith


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