Mesa 6.4 and libdrm 1.0.5 packages

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:33:23AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >   * mesag3 -> libgl1-mesa-swrast; ditto -dev
> 
> I don't think libgl1-mesa-swrast is very accurate; AFAIK it actually
> uses X11 (but not GLX), so something like libgl1-mesa-x11 maybe?

-noglx?  I'm not overly attached to either name.

> >   * libgl1-mesa-dri -> libgl1-mesa; ditto -dev,
> >     + libgl1-mesa-dri now contains only actual DRI modules,
> 
> The drivers aren't directly tied to the libgl1 virtual package (the long
> term plan is to use them in the X server as well to provide accelerated
> indirect rendering), something like mesa-(dri-)drivers might be better.

They're pretty directly tied to the libgl1-mesa package, surely?

> > libgl1-mesa was chosen because, when xlibmesa-gl disappears, it will be 
> > the primary GL library for >99% of Debian's userbase.  I renamed its 
> > description to GLX, because it seemed a bit more fitting.
> 
> This line of reason makes sense to me, but then why not call it
> something like libgl1-mesa-glx?

Just to make it as obvious as possible that it really is the GL library
you're after, I guess.
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