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-				X Window System Core Protocol
+		X Window System Core Protocol
+
+This package provides the headers and specification documents defining
+the X Window System Core Protocol, Version 11.
+
+It also includes a number of headers that aren't purely protocol related,
+but are depended upon by many other X Window System packages to provide
+common definitions and porting layer.
 
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