Hi all, It seems that mesa (6.3.2) as well as xorg (6.8.2) both provide a GL/GLU implemetation. IIRC the xorg GL/GLU code is based on (older) mesa code. Why this duplication of code and which of this two implementations is the preferred one? Could I replace the xorg packages with the mesa packages without ill effects resp. without loss of functionality? I noticed that Ubuntu renamed mesag3->libglu1-mesa and xlibmesa-gl->libgl1-xorg. Is this an attempt to smooth the transition from the xorg packages to the mesa ones and in the course of the X modularisation to get completely rid of the GL/GLU code in xorg (and the libgl*-xorg packages) and use mesa directly as an external library? If there is such a transition how will it take place? Could someone with a deeper insight enlighten me? Cheers, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail: biebl@teco.edu WWW: http://www.teco.edu/ TecO (Telecooperation Office) Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str.1 University of Karlsruhe 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------
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