Bug#1099023: Unnecessary dependence of gdm3 on xwayland

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM Stephan Verbücheln
<verbuecheln at posteo.de> wrote:
> > Having apps that are not native Wayland silently fail to run for
> > those people feels bad to me.
>
> Of course this should be automatically installed for applications which
> require it. But that should be a dependency of the respective
> application, directly or indirectly, for instance as a dependency of
> GTK2.

I am skeptical whether that is practical since these "legacy" (?) apps
can be distributed outside Debian, as snaps or Flatpaks or just
binaries. I still don't think you've made a convincing argument for
why your proposed change provides enough benefit to users to outweigh
the potential harm.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha