> On 2021-03-25 17:11 +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Leandro Nini via blfs-support >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > a standalone version of Xwayland has been released ( >> > https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2021-March/003076.html) >> > should this be installed over the current version provided by xorg-server? >> > >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Leandro >> >> It's a question for people who are using wayland - I think that of >> the packages in the book, only gnome uses wayland (certainly when I >> last looked the kde plasma package was pointed to the xorg version >> by a sed). > > Anyway, "overwriting" a part of a package with another is bad. What will > happen > if Xorg is reinstalled for some updated dependencies? > > If there is a good reason to use new Xwayland, we should disable Xwayland in > Xorg, and add Xwayland as a new package. >
I've read that there's a lot of work going on in kwin for wayland, but I have no clue if/where xwayland fit in the big scheme. Anyway I see that xorg-server has an --enable-xwayland option which can be used to avoid conflicts. Leandro -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
