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

[Pete Wright]

On 12/20/2017 03:55, Johannes Lundberg 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?
>

+1

Not having to track local diffs to enable wayland in gtk30 and friends 
would be really helpful for me to test/dog food things.


-pete

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