On Dienstag, 16. Mai 2023 20:15:44 CEST Sam James wrote:
> Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> writes:
> > Impact On Happy X Users
> > =======================
> > 
> > Minor. Most dependencies were already required with
> > kde-plasma/plasma-desktop and its dependencies. Upcoming stable versions
> > of kde-apps/spectacle and kde-apps/krfb will depend on (K)PipeWire
> > unconditionally.
> > 
> > No one will lose their X session, but will have the option to easily log
> > in to a working Wayland session at any time.
> 
> We should probably note that it's fine for people to use -wayland in
> make.conf if they want although we'd discourage it for the Plasma
> profile?
> 
> I know we don't want to encourage people to set X or wayland manually
> on that profile, but I think it's worth us saying because I can
> absolutely see people asking about it.

"It is possible to set USE="-wayland" against these changes, but it will 
amount to no dependency savings, just micro-optimisation in affected 
packages."