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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:45:22 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r490910 - in head: Mk Mk/Uses mail/thunderbird www/firefox www/firefox-esr www/firefox-i18n www/firefox/files www/palemoon www/seamonkey
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:17:42AM +0800, Martin Wilke wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:52:11PM +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> > ...
> > Given that WAYLAND is the default for us, and "without wayland"
> > might be untested anyways - would it make sense to remove the
> > WAYLAND option and force it to "on" always?

Please don't.  I have zero reasons to want/enable Wayland bits and deal
with all the extra bloat that comes with it.  Modern FreeBSD/X.org stack
is quite bloated already (e.g. compared with my 8.4-STABLE setup).

> Correct me if I am wrong, WAYLAND is a X replacement which is not really
> working with FreeBSD atm.

Not just FreeBSD, it looks like experimental project even in GNU/Linux,
but most important it is inherently useless in the first place, because
X11 works just fine.

> Why should I/we install it when we don't use it? For me the only thing
> it does is increasing build time, and for minimal desktops a useless
> dependency. Its already absurd enough to have 2 CLANG versions on a
> desktop.

I fully concur.  We really need to slow down the bloat in ports, it is
becoming harder and harder to build/use them on a typical commodity,
moderately capable hardware.

./danfe



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