Hello, Alan, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> writes:
> Hello, Gentoo. > > I got a nasty shock earlier on this evening when I was updating my > (still newish) system. Around (perhaps) 70 packages to be updated or > reloaded, several of them big packages. What's going on? > > There were lots of qt and kde packages being sucked in. But what stood > out prominently was the wayland USE flag, which appeared to have been > enabled in most of these packages. > > What on Earth is going on? I never asked for wayland, and I haven't > received any news items about it in the last few weeks. I know little > about this X substitute, but one thing's vitually certain; that > installing it as emerge intended would lead to a lot of breakage. That should not be the case. If something breaks, that's a bug. Wayland was added to the default USE of the desktop profiles because most DE developers have started phasing out X11 support, or at least treating it as second-class, and because enabling USE=wayland should have no impact on those using the X session, as most/all Wayland support is runtime-conditional. So, that change agrees with developers of software we ship, while not bringing our users much disadvantage. Hence it was enabled. Hope that helps, have a lovely evening. -- Arsen Arsenović
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