chronid

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1. 271.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   An external standard (de facto or not) is always better when dealing with things like this than a internal API. If I want to reuse that daemon for other things I know what to expect and how to operate it indipendently.
2. 272.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   Gentoo, Arch at least (and related distros). I also believe Fedora does that.
3. 273.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   Closed NVIDIA/AMD drivers do not implement EGL yet, and that is IIRC a prerequisite for Wayland. That could be a reason, unfortunately.
4. 274.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   It's probably not. Those projects do not have a comparable userbase, so that is somewhat expected - but that missing popularity comes with another set of problems...
5. 275.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   The reason people get so crazy about this debate, at least, is that many see this as "land grabbing" done in a passive/aggressive manner by RH employees (merging udev and systemd under the same repo and having to build system
6. 276.▲
   by chronid 13y ago

   I believe it's better to put politics as far away as possible from this discussion. Nothing good will come from finding those kind of parallels. That said, I don't like the attitude of systemd devs at all (like I don't like t