<divya>
Aha thank you! SiFuh! I'll try those ports.
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<farkuhar>
I should probably write a wiki page about wayland, if the question keeps getting asked on this channel. Several of the xorg ports need to be rebuilt after installing the "wayland" ports turned up by SiFuh's search, most notably mesa and gtk3.
<jaeger>
even moreso if you use xwayland, I think wlroots and sway (if you use that) needed rebuilds for it
<SiFuh>
A wayland wiki will be awesome
<farkuhar>
and if you don't install xwayland, you'll find that some projects fail to compile cleanly, even though their meson.build supposedly honors a flag like -Dxwayland=false. These small projects are similar to CRUX in that respect: not enough resources to test their builds on a variety of different configurations.
<farkuhar>
although the "every 3 or 4 months" timetable is somewhat out of date at this point
<Guest2072>
Ok, thanks, I'll be waiting
<SiFuh>
I thought Wayland worked on 3.6
<farkuhar>
in the meantime, there are folks on this channel who might be able to help with your wayland questions.
<farkuhar>
SiFuh: correct, it's very possible to run a Wayland-only desktop on a CRUX 3.6 installation.
<SiFuh>
farkuhar: I don't know, I haven't read your wiki yet :-P
<farkuhar>
SiFuh: you wrote a few weeks ago that you tried Wayland and weren't too impressed. Did you try it on another distro, then?
<SiFuh>
I wrote about 6 months ago that I had tried it and I didn't like it, but that was about 4 or 5 years earlier on another distro, and I would try it the xwayland that jaeger suggested but I couldn't get my flight simulator to work with it so I scrapped it for the time being.
<Guest2072>
By the way, it's sad that chromium is not in the repos, I prefer it to firefox
<Guest2072>
over*
<farkuhar>
It's not in the official repos, but at least one of the core devs has a chromium port in his personal overlay.
<SiFuh>
It is in other repos, but they are probably out of date
<mnkydeth>
Also, at this point, couldn't someone just use the rc3 iso to install 3.7 ... Then just move over to the 3.7 ports rsync once they have been created?
<mnkydeth>
I mean, if you were determined to move forward at this point.
<farkuhar>
mnkydeth: good point, many of us have already done that. I think only frinnst was adventurous enough to edit /etc/ports/{core,opt,xorg,contrib}.rsync on an existing 3.6 installation and then run ports -u; sysup (unless I misunderstand what he meant by "in-place upgrade").
<Guest2072>
farkuhar: didn't notice your message, send me the link if you find it, please
<farkuhar>
Guest2072: the chromium port in beerman's personal overlay is not published, as far as I know. You might ask him directly over in #crux-devel.
<Guest2072>
Thanks
<farkuhar>
gotta get back to work now, but a wayland wiki is on my to-do list for later.
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<jaeger>
farkuhar: the rc build systems get updated similarly... I switch to the next version's repos, rebuild the toolchain, then rebuild the rest
<mnkydeth>
@farkuhar, a wayland wiki would be nice. I havn't researched it at all yet. Was just going through the steps for pipewire. Maybe I should give Wayland and Sway a shake this time around on Crux.