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

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 02:55:06 +0300 Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:
> 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 :)

But is libEGL loaded into memory?