signal-desktop-bin and X

[Zucca]

Hi.

I've been trying to achieve USE="-X" globally for some time.
Now I'm at point where there's probably only one program requiring some other component (gtk+) to be compiled with +X. And that's signal-desktop-bin. It's an open source program, but it's an electron one.

Does anyone here have any experience on actually building electron programs, and is it even possible to compile them not to rely on X?
I would think that a program having a depency on a toolkit to draw its output wouldn't care how the toolkit draws it (via X or wayland), but apparently I'm wrong.
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[flexibeast]

i'd be interested to know this myself, as a Wayland and Signal user.

It's apparently possible to build and run signal-desktop -X; cf. this r/signal post.

The Electron ebuild has both `X` and `wayland` USE flags, but the `signal-desktop-bin` ebuild has multiple x11-libs in RDEPENDS, as well as `media-libs/mesa[X(+)]` and `sys-apps/dbus[X]`, presumably because all of that is required by the prebuilt .deb supplied by upstream.

Hopefully someone else has knowledge of how to configure the signal-desktop build process to create a non-X build.
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