I know little about the development culture of hyprland. Can you give more details about that and why being bleeding-edge makes packaging difficult? You mean packaging for distros or just the act of releasing new versions is hard because of deps breakage?

Hyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development. [0]

This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software.

Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits instead, a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian.

[0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1...

[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...