Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:27:17 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@) Message-ID: <20171220132717.0eb5777d@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <CAECmPwsN15WxSuXynto=RxTyztQdUjU5vaR6Y%2BCEkqDNW3_5Rg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAECmPwsN15WxSuXynto=RxTyztQdUjU5vaR6Y%2BCEkqDNW3_5Rg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:55:58 +0000 Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I want to suggest that we enable wayland by default. In current state > having some parts of wayland in ports is basically useless the > end-users themselves re-build gtk30 and mesa-libs with wayland > enabled. > > libwayland-egl.so from mesa-libs and the extra libraries and headers > from gtk30 adds like a few KB, a drop in the ocean compared to xorg > packages. (might be something more that I missed) > > Personally I see no reason not to make it default on, even with > flavors coming up. For any Desktop user (as well as embedded devices > like IVI-systems and whatnot), Wayland is the future. There's no > escaping that. > > Wayland has been quite usable on FreeBSD for over a year now but > access to it is limited due to the extra efforts required to use it. > > If we are to compare with the other guys, several Linux distros are > already switching to wayland-based compositors as default window > server. > > What do you think? > > > Edit: This does not break or modify anything existing. It does not > force you to do anything different. It simply adds a couple of > libraries that you won't use unless you run wayland stuff (if you > install gtk30 and mesa-libs). > Can you guarantee this? I seem to have mesa-libs stuff installed even though I use the nvidia-driver. May be that pkg just installed mesa-libs as a dependency for some other package. I'm using the AMD Ryzen which has no on-board graphics, so I'm happily using my NVIDIA GPU and have absolutely no desire to change because someone enables wayland by default. -- Gary Jennejohn
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