Bug#387706: [ydirson@altern.org: Bug#387706 - splitting mesa and mesa-legacy for libosmesa]

Yann Dirson dwitch at nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net
Mon Oct 16 16:56:56 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:05:23PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> Could this not be resolved by moving libOSmesa.so.6 out of the
> libgl1-mesa-swx11 package and into libosmesa6? That would also make it
> possible to install both libgl1-mesa-{swx11,glx} along with libosmesa,
> wouldn't it?

It could, except that it would prevent 3dfx owners to use the version
of the lib currently shipped in libgl1-mesa-glide3.  And it would
defeat the purpose of the current libosmesa6 package, which does not
depend on anything beyond libc6.

-- 
Yann





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