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

Greg V greg at unrelenting.technology
Wed Dec 20 23:55:13 UTC 2017


On 12/20/2017 20:01, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> 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?
> The older nvidia drivers don't have libEGL, but if libwayland-egl.so
> isn't actually used at runtime it's probably ok.
It's not used when you're on X11, because X11 is not Wayland :)
> x11-toolkits/gtk30
> doesn't have any WAYLAND option to test this though.

Oh, right — it only has that option in the GNOME ports! 
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-gnome/tree/gnome-3.26

( which are also merged into my ports 
https://github.com/myfreeweb/freebsd-ports-dank )


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