At Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:36:20 -0600 Mike McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 > -- > "War always hides a great many dirty secrets." > - "Foyle's War" > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
