Re: [gentoo-dev] Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:01:08 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:

> This is more food for thought to start a discussion on new category
> names. With Wayland becoming more of a reality every day. I think some
> of the x11-* categories may need to change. Stuff in there may not be
> bound to X and can run on Wayland or X.
>
> Examples
> x11-libs/gtk+
> x11-terms/terminology
>
> Not sure what better "universal" category names would be. But seems it
> maybe time for a discussion on such and some new categories and
> package moves. Given thus stuff can run under X or Wayland. Not sure
> x11 makes sense anymore.

One thing I forgot to mention, the x11-* would not go away just shrink.

General stuff that is for say X11 or Wayland would go into the "new"
categories. Anything that is X specific, like xorg, drivers, xephyr, etc
would remain in the location and category it presently resides.

This would reduce the amount of package moves, but still would be fair
amount. With some being pretty major like moving GTK+. EFL ended up in
dev-libs, and I am not sure if that is the proper location, though it
does cross many categories. GTK+ and  FLTK are in x11-libs. I think EFL
ended up in dev-libs due to Wayland situation.

P.S.
I myself am not super excited about wayland. I see reliving a lot of
the problems of the past. Not to mention wayland supporting what X can
do now, today. Many things still in the works for most any
supporting Wayland, dual display, different resolutions etc. I gave it
a nickname  "Waitland" as you have to WAIT for wayland to support this
or that.... Either way it seems inevitable... Even if years off from
being the daily driver.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.