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

[Chris H]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:36:00 +0100 <gljennjohn at gmail.com> said

> 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.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29

HTH

--Chris
> 
> -- 
> Gary Jennejohn