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- _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
