Wlroots/Sway/Labwc in pkgsrc

[Robert Bagdan <kikadf.01%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,
I have been working in pkgsrc-wip on wlroots, which is a library for
building wayland compositors, along with sway (i3 like) and labwc
(openbox like) compositors. I believe these packages are ready to be
imported into pkgsrc. At least, I can run both labwc and sway on a
NetBSD-11 amd64 i915drmkms system without issues. (I personally use
labwc, as the tiling workflow is not familiar to me.) Note that
wlroots requires NetBSD 11, as NetBSD 10 doesn’t allow
DRM_IOCTL_GET_UNIQUE on render nodes, which causes the DRM backend
initialization to fail.

I have a few questions regarding the import:

1) Category for Wayland packages
Currently, some related packages would go into x11, but I’m wondering
whether introducing a separate "wayland" category would make sense.
For example, OpenBSD ports has a dedicated wayland category, however
FreeBSD ports doesn’t. Although the number of packages may remain
relatively small, a dedicated category might better reflect their role.

2) xwayland package
Pkgsrc currently provides the modular-xorg-xwayland, but I propose
renaming it to xwayland. I have successfully built xwayland against
the native X11, and it appears to work correctly. To achieve this, I
made some changes to x11-links, which are available in pkgsrc-wip.
I would also like to make this available in binary repositories, as
wlroots can make use of xwayland support.


The import candidate packages from pkgsrc-wip:
* New packages:
(sysutils)/seatd: Seat management daemon and library
(graphics)/glslang: Front end for GLSL/ESSL, HLSL (partial) and SPIR-V generator
(graphics)/vulkan-loader: Loader for Vulkan Graphics API (@nros)
(graphics)/libliftoff: Lightweight KMS plane library
(devel)/libopeninput: Wscons(4) and kqueue(2) based port of libinput
(devel)/input-headers: Input headers from libopeninput
(devel)/libevdev-chunk: Minimal set of libevdev functions
(x11 or wayland)/wlroots: Wayland compositor library
(devel)/libsfdo: Libraries which implement some of the freedesktop.org
specifications
(wm or wayland)/labwc: Wlroots-based compositor for Wayland, inspired by Openbox
(devel)/basu: The sd-bus library, extracted from systemd
(x11 or wayland)/sway: Tilling, i3-compatible Wayland compositor
(devel)/tllist: C implementation of a typed linked list (@bsiegert)
(fonts)/fcft: Simple library for font loading and glyph rasterization
(@bsiegert)
(x11 or wayland)/foot: Terminal for Wayland (@bsiegert)
(x11 or wayland)/swaybg: Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors
(devel)/gtk-layer-shell: Library to create desktop components for Wayland
(devel)/gtk4-layer-shell: Library to create desktop components for Wayland
(devel)/chrono-date: Date and time library based on the C++11/14/17
<chrono> header
(x11 or wayland)/sfwbar: S* Floating Window Bar for wayland compositors
(x11 or wayland)/swayidle: Idle management daemon for Wayland compositors
(x11 or wayland)/swaylock: Screen locker for Wayland compositors
(x11 or wayland)/slurp: Tool to select a region in a Wayland compositor
(x11 or wayland)/grim: Grab images from a Wayland compositor
(x11 or wayland)/wl-clipboard: Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
(x11 or wayland)/wlr-randr: Utility to manage outputs of a Wayland compositor
(x11 or wayland)/swappy: Screenshot tool for Wayland
(devel)/libscfg: C library for a simple configuration file format
(devel)/vali: C library and code generator for Varlink
(x11 or wayland)/kanshi: Dynamic display configuration for Wayland
(devel)/aml: Another main loop library (@wiz)
(x11 or wayland)/neatvnc: Liberally licensed VNC server library with a
clean interface (@wiz)
(x11 or wayland)/wayvnc: VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors (@wiz)
(x11 or wayland)/wlrctl: Utility for miscellaneous wlroots extensions
(x11 or wayland)/wlopm: Wayland output power management

* Changes on existed packages:
x11/modular-xorg-xwayland: move to (x11 or wayland)/xwayland
x11/dunst: enable wayland support
pkgtools/x11-links: changes to build xwayland


Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.

If there are no objections, I plan to proceed with the import around
April 11-12.

-- 
Regards,
kikadf