From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD88B15800F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80B34E0898; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx0.riseup.net (mx0.riseup.net [198.252.153.6]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24815E0894 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fews2.riseup.net (fews2-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.84]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.riseup.net", Issuer "R3" (not verified)) by mx0.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Nxmyy4B2Hz9t1g for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:37:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=riseup.net; s=squak; t=1674049050; bh=hlWSBXL/VfiZyNVoWtIJqf+R2bLcFPRTZCFDfEfLU7U=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=NfJ/usJyWR50XibVHotyx6BxjDjnaO49NvX6Hpq7tvozYZ3t50ba2wMSD6LgSc+U1 LOxtEhQF1GXjueAb17amuyCMo8s7cjydetkswCeK6qAGrB7ZXDAvVn+7IW74aZ91uL bGtv+H3tdmkngIqQueBEacRkSVjzqIIUje/nyUvo= X-Riseup-User-ID: C40422159484BDEE735208F4BD37CBEDC5D71A4DD88A2FEFC46C3067F1BCFA9D Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fews2.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4Nxmyy2Xd2z20Rm for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 05:37:03 -0800 From: orbea To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd Message-ID: <20230118053703.081905e0@Akita> In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 194bd01a-1bf3-4f24-8f82-eb5f2a11ff14 X-Archives-Hash: cf1a1b5268fa178d7edef0a40eb18818 I think this is a mistake, libglvnd has a documented performance hit and should be optional. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd/-/issues/222 On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:23:22 +0200 Cedric Sodhi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort out > the historical artefact "virtual/opengl" which dates back to before > Wayland and has become somewhat inappropriate (a misnomer, not > sufficiently configurable, or redundant depending on one's > perspective). > > A quick recap of the situation, a description of the problems and > reasons why it should be deprecated, as well as the "way forward" are > documented here: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:ManDay/Deprecating_the_virtual_OpenGL_ebuild > > At this point we would like to invite everyone to enter additional > feedback - including potential problems which are not covered by the > article. When we're sure that everything has been considered, we can > move to deprecating "virtual/opengl". > > > Thank you! > Cedric >