diff --git a/Development-Setup.md b/Development-Setup.md
index d3c5930..8308802 100644
--- a/Development-Setup.md
+++ b/Development-Setup.md
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@ git clone git@github.com:swaywm/sway.git
 cd sway
 git clone git@github.com:swaywm/wlroots.git subprojects/wlroots
 
-# optional: also build wlroots dependencies (wayland-protocols, seatd...) as subprojects
-git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols.git subprojects/wayland-protocols
-git clone https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd subprojects/seatd
-
 # Build sway and wlroots
 meson build/
 ninja -C build/
@@ -57,6 +53,13 @@ In order to be able to collect core dumps on ASan failures (to inspect variable
 
 When pulling from the Sway repo, remember to also pull from the wlroots repo.
 
+If you don't have a recent enough version of libseat or wayland-protocols, you can use subprojects like so:
+
+``sh
+git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols.git subprojects/wayland-protocols
+git clone https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd subprojects/seatd
+```
+
 If you don't have Sway installed on your system or if you want to test swaybar/swaymsg/swaynag changes, you can populate your `PATH` like so:
 
 ```sh