From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wayland and X-Window
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:01:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131019130133.ec812df0266a813f3ba34927@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$ce544$4845679f$dfc275d9$ba5f4223@cox.net>
On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:11:05 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
> * On the flip-side, it's worth noting that the wayland/weston devs and
> xorg devs are generally the same people. After wayland gets going, their
> focus is going to be almost entirely on it,
>
The X-Window system, which goes back to the 1980's, is probably overdue for
replacement, and I would certainly welcome a modernized overhaul of the
Linux graphics foundation. But I would also hate to see more "fascism" erupt
as we are seeing with the freedesktop project. It's too bad that Torvalds himself
could not oversee *all* of Linux/GNU development rather than just the kernel.
Anyway, I would like to get started early with wayland. Doing an "emerge -pv"
for both wayland and weston (and also GTK+3 with wayland enabled) does not show
any requirements that I do not already have or could easily accommodate, and I may
install everything now just to see what's what.
I don't expect any definitive answer and I realize that I will have to do my
own research, but would doing this simple emerge process with wayland/weston/gtk+3
provide, right now, a representative version of the final wayland/weston product?
Or is the current Gentoo implementation just an incomplete step toward the final
wayland?
Frank Peters
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-19 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-19 1:36 [gentoo-amd64] Wayland and X-Window Frank Peters
2013-10-19 7:11 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2013-10-19 15:10 ` David Klann
2013-10-19 15:38 ` Duncan
2013-10-19 15:11 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-19 16:09 ` Duncan
2013-10-19 16:24 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-19 17:35 ` Frank Peters
2013-10-20 0:15 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-20 14:15 ` Paul Jewell
2013-10-21 3:09 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-21 12:18 ` Rich Freeman
2013-10-19 17:01 ` Frank Peters [this message]
2013-10-20 13:36 ` Duncan
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