Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)
On Tue 27 Mar 01, 1:17 PM, David Steinberg said:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > <sort-of-rant on which packages to get>
> > this problem is more general, there are some 'groups' of packages that
> > all provide same/similar functionality but it's not clear which ones
> > work together, netscape packages are similar (or at least were when I
> > was installing netscape).
> > </sort-of-rant>
>
> Agreed. These mesa and glide packages are very confusing. Netscape is
> similar. I don't know if it could be resolved by better naming, or if
> maybe there needs to be some documentation explaining the twisted logic
> <g> behind these intricately related groups of packages.
>
> Do others find that the current combination of naming and dependancies are
> sufficient to make things clear?
absolutely. maybe there should be a debian QA group who look at questions
of usability like this?
> How I dealt with this: first, I used apt-get. I acutally got rid of the
> old packages first, and it uninstalled lots of packages that I didn't want
> to get rid of, like libwine, wine, xbase-clients, xf86setup, and
> xscreensaver-gl. That made me a little bit nervous, but when I
> reinstalled them, it actually installed xlibmesa3 and xlibmesa-dev; that's
> how I found those packages in the first place.
been there. done that. :)
pete
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