Johan Myréen [08/Aug 9:48pm +03] wrote: > On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 19:59, martin rudalics <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 'emacs' is a "metapackage" [1][2]. The question is thus: Why does, in a >> > Kubuntu environment, 'sudo apt install emacs' install the emacs-gtk >> package, >> > when the emacs-pgtk package would be better suited? >> >> Johan Myréen has repeatedly asked for such a step in the past. But this >> is a desktop issue. I never install emacs as a package but on xfce/xfwm >> I would strongly oppose having the PGTK build as default. > > > I see this as a Linux distribution issue. The major distributions (Ubuntu, > Fedora, Debian) default to Wayland in their newest versions, and are in the > process of dropping the X11 session altogether. On these distributions I > think it would make sense to make the PGTK version the default. On the > other hand, on distros like Mint and other distros using X11 window > managers, the PGTK version should not be offered by default, or preferably > not at all. > > This is of course up to the distro makers to decide, and we can only give > recommendations.
I don't maintain Emacs in Debian anymore. I agree that if GNOME and KDE both default to Wayland, the emacs-pgtk package ought to be the default variant installed by the metapackage. -- Sean Whitton
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