Live builds (was: Merged proto package)

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:32:21AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 23:14 Tue 06 Apr     , Keith Packard wrote:

> > The people we're trying to reach with this are those people building
> > From source.
> > 
> > For people like me, who really can't rely on a distribution to be up
> > to date enough, I end up installing protocol headers. Of course,
> > they go stale if I don't keep on top of them, and so I get
> > accidental version skew. Reducing the number of packages I have to
> > track from 20 to 1 would avoid this almost entirely.
> 
> You should clearly be using a distribution that supports live-source
> packages. =) It's one command for me to update the X server and all
> its dependencies to current git.

Ubuntu has the xorg-edgers PPA. While not exactly a live build, it comes
pretty close in practical terms.

I don't see why other distributions can't provide something similar.
Even without true live bulids, IMHO this makes the whole point about
xserver being too hard to build pretty moot.

-antrik-