Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

[Matt Jolly <kangie@gentoo.org>]

Hi Alan,

On 25/9/24 04:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Perhaps.  As already said, I would have been much less jumpy if the
> explanations which have come in this thread had been in a news item.

As has been mentioned here this was not news-worthy. There is no
decision to make or mandatory migration. Users on the desktop
profile have simply transparently been rolled forward with a USE flag
change as happens with some regularity.

> With this change involving wayland, users HAVE to make a decision, namely
> whether to set USE='-wayland', as both of us have done, or to accept the
> bloat of around 50 packages and many megabytes of things like qt and kde
> libraries.  I think the necessary background information to make that
> decision was missing.

Most users of a desktop profile already made their decision: to trust
the distribution developers to make sane decisions on their behalf, and
to deviate from the default when they have a need to.

At the end of the day, unless your workstation is a literal 1990s potato
you can spare the disk space and CPU time for Wayland if you're on a
desktop profile. Users that really care about these things are
encouraged to carefully inspect each of the USE flags changed on a world
update (and ideally are familiar with Gentoo VCS) so that they can
inform themselves when a change comes around.

Cheers,

Matt