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Bug#187365: xlibmesa3-glu: libraries not correctly linked



On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:16:21PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Don, 2003-04-03 at 07:59, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:12:09AM +0200, Marco d'Itri scrawled:
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1		-lGL
> > 
> > Hold on, doesn't this render the entire -gl/-glu fix moot?
> 
> No, why? libGLU depends on libGL (which isn't reflected in the
> xlibmesa*-glu dependencies due to this bug), I guess the rationale
> behind the split was that not every app that uses libGL also uses
> libGLU.
> 
> Anyway, why not simply drop xlibmesa*-glu, seeing as they are the same
> thing as libglu1-mesa, except that they tend to be more buggy?

We could just as well ask why we bother to ship xlibmesa*, then.

I would like to know why the answers to your question and the above
should be different.

N.B., I'm not opposed to having the XFree86 packages stop shipping the
Mesa libraries, I just want to have a coherent reason for doing so.

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