On 21/11/19 21:53, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 21. November 2019 09:11:46 CET Mart Raudsepp wrote:
>> See also this related old thread:
>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/e04f6d321e424a237af62721d1d09
>> 211
> I think tackling the triad of opengl/gles, egl/glx, X/wayland is also a good
> idea.  Generally, all these probably have to distinguish between "support for
> XYZ" and "use only XYZ", the latter hopefully being the exception, so that the
> former can take the shorter use-flag.  That's what I don't like about the
> proposal from 2018: Globally enabling USE=gles will have different effects on
> different packages.  That's also what I like about the recent proposal: The
> flags are more explicit.
>
> --Dennis
I don't think the problem is so much in the principle of making a change,
or even the specifics of any particular permutation of change, it's who
gets to manage and implement the change in a maintainable fashion, and who
has to deal with the fallout of any changes occurring where a particular
scenario 'slips through the net'....

If you can convince the latter people that there is no problem arising from
making said changes, and you ensure that there genuinely *is* minimal
impact (by whatever means) then you stand a much better chance of this
change actually being implemented ..