Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

["Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@gentoo.org>]

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Hello, Alan,

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> I got a nasty shock earlier on this evening when I was updating my
> (still newish) system.  Around (perhaps) 70 packages to be updated or
> reloaded, several of them big packages.  What's going on?
>
> There were lots of qt and kde packages being sucked in.  But what stood
> out prominently was the wayland USE flag, which appeared to have been
> enabled in most of these packages.
>
> What on Earth is going on?  I never asked for wayland, and I haven't
> received any news items about it in the last few weeks.  I know little
> about this X substitute, but one thing's vitually certain; that
> installing it as emerge intended would lead to a lot of breakage.

That should not be the case.  If something breaks, that's a bug.

Wayland was added to the default USE of the desktop profiles because
most DE developers have started phasing out X11 support, or at least
treating it as second-class, and because enabling USE=wayland should
have no impact on those using the X session, as most/all Wayland support
is runtime-conditional.

So, that change agrees with developers of software we ship, while not
bringing our users much disadvantage.  Hence it was enabled.

Hope that helps, have a lovely evening.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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