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 # wlroots
 
 Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a
-[Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/) compositor; or about 40,000 lines of
+[Wayland](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/) compositor; or about 50,000 lines of
 code you were going to write anyway.
 
 - wlroots provides backends that abstract the underlying display and input