Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:41:04 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> To: <gljennjohn@gmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "Johannes Lundberg" <johalun0@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@) Message-ID: <4540231cb5d5bd36377ee0caae22cc26@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <20171220153600.3b2b56b6@ernst.home>
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:36:00 +0100 <gljennjohn@gmail.com> said > On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:53:20 +0000 > Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@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? > > I imagine the only way to find out would be to try it. But if it's only > gtk30, then it should > be possible to avoid using it. > > I have no idea what wayland entails, or what it's good for, so I can't voice > an opinion. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 HTH --Chris > > -- > Gary Jennejohn
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