Re: update on Wayland and the installer

Chuck Anderson <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:08:00 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.anaconda.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:01:26AM -0500, David Shea wrote:
> Summary: don't do anything.
> 
> Wayland by default is a goal for F24 Workstation
> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault), and if
> all goes right, then the Workstation live installer will be running
> on Wayland. We don't need to do anything for that to happen. We
> should keep an eye out for anything that might be going weird with
> anaconda running on Wayland (any of the places where we use Gdk
> functions directly deserve a look), but that's it.

Unless it changed in the last week, liveinst can't run as a non-root
user due to consolehelper not working with Wayland.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451