Re: purging wayland
At Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:36:20 -0600 Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net> wrote:
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> I guess I'm confused, thinking wayland sits on top of X11 rather than
> X11 depends on wayland.
> Thinking I'm using X11 rather than wayland I went to purge wayland.
> root@RPI2:~> apt purge libwayland*
> REMOVING: firefox galculator x11-utils xserver-xorg*
> I declined this.
> Can someone explain why purging libwayland* would necessitate removing
> xserver-xorg*?
"libwayland" is not Wayland itself. I *guessing* it is a library of some sort,
maybe to support wayland programs running on a X11 system, but I don't know
for sure -- I don't have it installed on my RPi5 bookworm (Debian 12.12)
system.
Wayland does not sit on top of X11. True X11 does not depend on wayland.
Wayland *replaces* X11 completely. I believe there is a wayland thing that
emulates X11, allow "legacy" X11 programs run on a system with wayland.
> Thanks,
> Mike
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