On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:32 PM Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <cont...@hacktivis.me> wrote: > > Hello gentoo-dev, > > First proposition on this list so hopefully not missing some kind of > netiquette/policy. > > I noticed for some time that there seems to be two use cases for the > gles[123] family of USE flags in gentoo repo: > 1. enabling support of OpenGL ES, which seems interesting to have for > more runtime choices, probably better usage of the drivers and better > binary-compat support. > 2. switching from OpenGL (so the full API) to Open GL ES (reduced API), > which is an entirely different kind of action as that reduces it quite > significantly but might be useful for machines where the drivers do not > provide (good) OpenGL. > > To reflect this I think the "gles[123]" USE flags should be renamed, > first kind to "gles[123]support" and second kind to "gles[123]only". > Might also be the time to globalize them? I'm not sure but I think that > would help in signalling which USE flags are to be used in packages. > (and I'm probably not the only one which tends to only put global USE > flags in make.conf, this kind of USE flags being the reason)
I think this is a good idea. I would suggest gles[123] and gles[123]-only to avoid some of the churn. Changing gles[123] to gles[123]-support would mean changing a ton of reverse dependencies of Mesa, and I think that's a bad idea. > ## Second kind, switch from OpenGL to OpenGL ES (20 packages) > dev-libs/weston:gles2 - Use GLESv2 cairo instead of full GL > dev-python/PyQt5:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qt3d:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtdatavis3d:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtdeclarative:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtgui:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtmultimedia:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtopengl:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtprintsupport:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtwebkit:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > dev-qt/qtwidgets:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > games-emulation/mupen64plus-core:gles2 - Use GLES2 instead of OpenGL > games-emulation/mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2:gles2 - Use GLES2 instead of > OpenGL > games-emulation/mupen64plus-video-rice:gles2 - Use GLES2 instead of OpenGL > kde-apps/kdenlive:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > kde-frameworks/plasma:gles2 - Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL > kde-plasma/kwin:gles2 - Use OpenGL ES 2 instead of full GL > sci-libs/opencascade:gles2 - Use OpenGL ES 2.0 > www-plugins/freshplayerplugin:gles2 - Use system GLESv2 libraries instead of > ANGLE for shader translation > www-plugins/lightspark:gles - Replace default OpenGL renderer with GLESv2 Making a pull request to change these seems like a great plan. I'll be happy to help or review.
