Hi Alan, On 25/9/24 04:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Perhaps. As already said, I would have been much less jumpy if the explanations which have come in this thread had been in a news item.
As has been mentioned here this was not news-worthy. There is no decision to make or mandatory migration. Users on the desktop profile have simply transparently been rolled forward with a USE flag change as happens with some regularity.
With this change involving wayland, users HAVE to make a decision, namely whether to set USE='-wayland', as both of us have done, or to accept the bloat of around 50 packages and many megabytes of things like qt and kde libraries. I think the necessary background information to make that decision was missing.
Most users of a desktop profile already made their decision: to trust the distribution developers to make sane decisions on their behalf, and to deviate from the default when they have a need to. At the end of the day, unless your workstation is a literal 1990s potato you can spare the disk space and CPU time for Wayland if you're on a desktop profile. Users that really care about these things are encouraged to carefully inspect each of the USE flags changed on a world update (and ideally are familiar with Gentoo VCS) so that they can inform themselves when a change comes around. Cheers, Matt
