Mesa 6.4 and libdrm 1.0.5 packages

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 22:43 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:33:23AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > >   * 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?

For now (and ignoring xlibmesa-gl), yes, but hopefully not for long, see
above.


> > > 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.

Doesn't seem all that obvious to me. Most people still seem to take
'Mesa' to mean 'no hardware acceleration'.


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