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From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
To: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Separate packages for wayland variants
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:49:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a3eaf45-075c-ff88-21b3-9b4ec66145c0@web.de> (raw)

Happy new year fellow Guix hackers,

I wonder how we usually deal with package variants for wayland support.

In my case I want to make keepassxc working more nicely on sway. It is
as simple as adding `qtwayland-5` to its input list. Increasing its size
from 1271.8 MiB to 1303.5 MiB.

Indicators for a separate wayland package:
* size gets increased noticeable
* "enabling" wayland breaks X.org
* launching for wayland requires certain environment variables (like
icedove-wayland with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1)

Indicators for an all-in-one package:
* size increase relative small
* package works with wayland or X.org
* reducing duplicated build runs and space on disk with almost identical
package variants

Any guidance on this topic is appreciated :)

~Jonathan


             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-02 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-02 13:49 Jonathan Brielmaier [this message]
2023-01-05 21:03 ` Separate packages for wayland variants Josselin Poiret

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