Why the GTK+ wayland backend can't be enabled in linux distros, at all

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Mar 27 23:35:00 PDT 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:07:11PM -0400, darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> 
> I suppose E would be get Nouveau, the open source Nvidia driver, to work
> well enough that the proprietary driver is completely unnecessary.  That
> seems very challenging, with the complete lack of help from Nvidia.

In Fedora-land at least proprietary bits are officially not supported (it goes
beyond just not shipping them) so they just might go for F) Enable it and tell
proprietary software users where to stick it.

--CJD


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