Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@)

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:53:20 +0000
Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.
> >  
> 
> x11-toolkits/gtk30 will get some added dependencies:
> libwayland-client.so:graphics/wayland \
> libwayland-egl.so:graphics/mesa-libs \
> libxkbcommon.so:x11/libxkbcommon
> 
> Is this a problem for Nvidia users?

I imagine the only way to find out would be to try it.  But if it's only gtk30, then it should
be possible to avoid using it.

I have no idea what wayland entails, or what it's good for, so I can't voice an opinion.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn