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Hyprland is nice, but goddamn is it a PITA to package. I wish they'd stop being that extremely bleeding-edge with the stuff they depend on.
by zilti 3y ago
Hyprland is nice, but goddamn is it a PITA to package. I wish they'd stop being that extremely bleeding-edge with the stuff they depend on.
- gchamonlive 3y agoI know little about the development culture of hyprland. Can you give more details about that and why being bleeding-edge makes packaging difficult? You mean packaging for distros or just the act of releasing new versions is hard because of deps breakage?
- jamesp33 3y agoHyprland builds using a pinned commit of wlroots instead of a tagged release because wlroots release schedule is too slow for Hyprland's development. [0] This turns into a problem for maintainers because many distributions refuse to ship non tagged versions of software. Hyprland used to depend on wlroots-git, but when it made the switch to use specific pinned commits instead, a lot more distributions started to package it [1], but some still refuse to do so such as Debian. [0] https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1173675004 https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland/issues/302#issuecomment-1... [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/58213 https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_request...