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by crazyloglad 2061 days ago
It is a compromise for how Xorg and Wayland can have a shared graphics backend that improves both sides and the part that the Xorg maintainer wants gone can go away.

Arcan has had its own fork of Xorg for many years, as well as a Wayland implementation. Nothing here will change that trajectory.

The library mentioned is about ~2kloc, decoupled from the rest of the project (100+kloc) and the relevant subset has not changed significantly for several years.