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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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Subject: Re: Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@)
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 04:46:35PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> If the eventual goal is to eliminate pure X11 and only offer the crap
> being put into the Linux kernel, then there will be lots of unhappy
> campers.

The question here is about upstream support.  If all the X11 developers
switch to using Wayland, at some point X11 will bitrot.

And our own X11 volunteers are overwhelmed as it is.

mcl