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On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:11:05 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> * On the flip-side, it's worth noting that the wayland/weston devs and |
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> xorg devs are generally the same people. After wayland gets going, their |
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> focus is going to be almost entirely on it, |
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The X-Window system, which goes back to the 1980's, is probably overdue for |
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replacement, and I would certainly welcome a modernized overhaul of the |
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Linux graphics foundation. But I would also hate to see more "fascism" erupt |
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as we are seeing with the freedesktop project. It's too bad that Torvalds himself |
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could not oversee *all* of Linux/GNU development rather than just the kernel. |
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Anyway, I would like to get started early with wayland. Doing an "emerge -pv" |
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for both wayland and weston (and also GTK+3 with wayland enabled) does not show |
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any requirements that I do not already have or could easily accommodate, and I may |
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install everything now just to see what's what. |
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I don't expect any definitive answer and I realize that I will have to do my |
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own research, but would doing this simple emerge process with wayland/weston/gtk+3 |
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provide, right now, a representative version of the final wayland/weston product? |
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Or is the current Gentoo implementation just an incomplete step toward the final |
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wayland? |
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Frank Peters |
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