Bug 923305 – media-video/obs-studio-30.0.2: wayland marked as dependency for browser source but it works without wayland

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:19:25 UTC]

I have been using OBS Studio's Browser Source without installing dev-libs/wayland for several months by editing the ebuild to remove dev-libs/wayland from the dependencies at line 86. I came here to find out whether there is a specific reason that wayland is marked as a dependency for the browser source, or it's not necessary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put dev-libs/wayland in /etc/portage/package.mask and browser in USE
2. emerge obs-studio
Actual Results:  
All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/wayland" have been masked (dependency required by "media-video/obs-studio-30.0.2::gentoo[browser,-wayland]" [ebuild])

Expected Results:  
Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/obs-studio-30.0.2::gentoo

I am using Xorg

[Comment 1 tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:20:48 UTC]

Created attachment 883678 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:23:13 UTC]

Created attachment 883679 [details]
emerge -pqv obs-studio

[Comment 3 tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:29:42 UTC]

Created attachment 883680 [details]
emerge obs-studio

[Comment 4 tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:31:30 UTC]

Created attachment 883684 [details, diff]
remove dependency on wayland

[Comment 5 tacokoneko 2024-01-30 08:34:22 UTC]

Created attachment 883685 [details]
emerge obs-studio after patch

[Comment 6 Chiitoo 2024-01-30 10:07:36 UTC]

That is a good question.

I can not remember why I added it back in November 2022 [1], and I also do not see it being required now.

Will look into changing that dependency.

Thank you!

1. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/media-video/obs-studio?id=3193b29379d

[Comment 7 Chiitoo 2024-04-02 21:23:20 UTC]

Looking into this again, it seems there is some automagic going, where the pre-built

/usr/lib64/obs-plugins/libGLESv2.so

is installed when building with USE="browser", and it will link to

/usr/lib64/libwayland-client.so.0

so it's not entirely safe to simply yank out from everyone.

Will need to look into it a bit more.

[Comment 8 tacokoneko 2024-04-10 01:16:20 UTC]

OK good to hear, thank you for checking for me. It's not that big of a problem since I can make a local script just for myself to automatically remove the wayland dependency lines after every sync - games-util/heroic-bin has the same situation (depends on wayland but still works when the dependency is removed)

[Comment 9 Sylvain Munaut 2025-04-28 07:51:12 UTC]

Any update on this ?

I have the same issue for 31.0.3 and I also just manually removed the wayland dep and it works fine (both build and runtime).

[Comment 10 Sylvain Munaut 2025-04-28 07:52:39 UTC]

Oh I had missed the last comment, but

/usr/lib64/obs-plugins/libGLESv2.so no longer points to wayland-client

[Comment 11 Chiitoo 2025-04-28 09:34:44 UTC]

Indeed, looks like something changed there.

Will look into it more soon.

Thanks for the heads-up!