Re: why X

On 2024-05-11, Marco Moock wrote:
On 11.05.2024 um 17:35 Uhr Ivan Shmakov wrote:

 >> A handful of reasons of why X is still relevant this day and age;
 >> and what a replacement (if there will ever be one) will need to
 >> have, or improve upon, to succeed.

 > I think this will be "solved" by simply not shipping X11 anymore
 > in the future.  There are already such ideas.

I'm mostly familiar with Debian practices.  My understanding
is that so long as there /is/ a maintainer, /and/ there aren't
any release-critical bugs in the package, it gets shipped.

It's certainly possible for current X maintainers to step
down anytime they want to, but it's equally possible for
someone to volunteer for the task in their stead.

I may be mistaken, but my impression is that at least Arch
and Gentoo are similar to Debian in this respect.

As for NetBSD, there doesn't seem to be enough people there
interested in switching to Wayland, so I expect X to be
maintained there for a while yet.

Of course, a distribution that's maintained on a for-profit
basis, would only have the interests of the (majority) of
their paying customers in mind, and those might or might not
include continued X11 support.  But that's nothing new.

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