Re: Concerns Regarding the Choice of Rust for the Xfce Wayland Compositor

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On Wed, 2026-08-12 at 15:12 +0100, Peter Blackman wrote:
> On 12/08/2026 11:48, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
> , and when Xorg is
> > dropped from Debian maybe that means no Xfce at all.
> > 
> It certainly means no Xfce on some of our ports.
> Currently Xfce builds on all of our 18 architectures,
> but they don't all have Rust (llvm issue).

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "our" here, and maybe I wasn't clear
myself.

If Xfce on wayland requires xfwl4 which can't be packaged in Debian because of
various incompatibilities (like those expressed in this thread), then we might
not have Xfce on Debian at all (on any architecture) once (if it happens) Xorg
disappears from Debian. We might be able to move to a different window manager
(or compositor, not entirely sure which term is correct under Wayland) but
honestly that's not something I'm a huge fan of either.

Again we're not there yet but I have no idea about the roadmaps for xfwm4 and
more generally the non-Wayland Xfce status, and don't really know the roadmap
for Xorg in Debian either.


Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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