Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Re: NEW: wayland/{wayland,wayland-protocols,wayland-utils,plasma-wayland-protocols}

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 04:39:53PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote:

> > Another question is how much time this will
> > be adding to bulk builds, could you give some information about how long
> > it takes to build those packages on your machine?
>
> The whole Wayland category is quit small and builds really quickly. I
> was surprised myself how slim the whole thing is. It's pure C without
> heavy C++.
>
> Of course QtWayland/KWayland is a different story but even that is okay
> and that is my problem ;)

Thanks for providing those metrics, sounds good to me.

> > No strong opinion regarding adding a new category, I noticed the other
> > BSDs didn't seem to create a new category but this doesn't mean we
> > shouldn't do it.
>
> I think x11 and other categories will benefit form it in the long term.

So far there hasn't been any objections against a wayland category.
After doing further research, it now seems better to me to add the new
category as there is already a few dozens of compositors available,
some of which we will want to package in the future.

OK fcambus@ to import, in the new wayland category.

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