>> 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.
Just for the record, I've rebuild xorg-server with --disable-xwayland and KDE still works fine. Maybe I'm running the X11 version, but it does the job for me. Leandro -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
