Vote: making wayland=on default (also posted to ports@)

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:53:20 +0000 Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you guarantee this?  I seem to have mesa-libs stuff installed
>> even though I use the nvidia-driver.  May be that pkg just
>> installed mesa-libs as a dependency for some other package.
>>
>> I'm using the AMD Ryzen which has no on-board graphics, so I'm
>> happily using my NVIDIA GPU and have absolutely no desire to
>> change because someone enables wayland by default.
> 
> x11-toolkits/gtk30 will get some added dependencies:
> libwayland-client.so:graphics/wayland \
> libwayland-egl.so:graphics/mesa-libs \
> libxkbcommon.so:x11/libxkbcommon
> 
> Is this a problem for Nvidia users?

The older nvidia drivers don't have libEGL, but if libwayland-egl.so
isn't actually used at runtime it's probably ok.  x11-toolkits/gtk30
doesn't have any WAYLAND option to test this though.