[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: enable USE=vulkan by default

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 22:48 +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Ionen pointed this out again today and it made me look back at it;
> there's
> no reason to not have vulkan on by default for desktop profiles.
> 
> In particular, Steam expects it for plenty of games to work, but at
> this point,
> it's becoming jarring for users to _not_ have it as it's considered a
> fundamental part
> of the modern desktop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> index 46a8c5d3911e8..caccdbdd22a3e 100644
> --- a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> +++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
> +# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
>  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>  
> -USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus
> dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg
> lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit
> ppds qt5 sdl sound spell startup-notification svg tiff truetype vorbis
> udev udisks unicode upower usb wxwidgets X xcb xft x264 xml xv xvid"
> +USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus
> dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg
> lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit
> ppds qt5 sdl sound spell startup-notification svg tiff truetype vorbis
> udev udisks unicode upower usb vulkan wxwidgets X xcb xft x264 xml xv
> xvid"

Agreed, vulkan is absolutely needed on a modern desktop.