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wayland-protocols

brew install wayland-protocols v1.49 MIT

Collection of Wayland protocol XML specifications and documentation for extending the Wayland display server.

Why you might care

Wayland protocol definitions are required to build Wayland client and server libraries, compositors, and applications. This package provides the standardized protocol files that other Wayland implementations depend on. It's a foundational build dependency rather than a user-facing tool.

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