Merged proto package

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 07:03:56 PDT 2010


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

--
Dan


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