Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Future of sato and X in oe-core

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 03:35:03PM +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> X might and likely will start to bitrot sooner for those not using RHEL 8
> and its very conservative and never changing software stack. I can imagine
> Red Hat has no interest in supporting it on Fedora going forward for
> instance, they'll just make Xwayland work, and rip the standalone server
> and its drivers and libraries out.

There are plenty of other users big and small left, and most of the
hardware support already moved to the kernel.

Stale and stable is not necessarily bad for users, and X will not
suddenly stop working.

> Oe-core will have X for as long as the burden of fixing build errors and
> runtime issues with custom patches is not too painful.

If this is true, then let's revisit this topic in 10 years.

And the solution would then likely be to switch from matchbox/sato
to some desktop environment that supports wayland.

> The point I am
> trying to make is that I am not convinced oe-core needs a 'real' ui at all,
> and opinion to the contrary should justify the need.

The point I am trying to make is that this is a different discussion.

And any "no UI in oe-core" decision would not have to wait until the 
point in the distant future when X might no longer be supportable.

> Alex

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Adrian