On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Tiago Vignatti <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
