Re: XFree86, Mesa, Debian, and libGLU revisited

[Harald Dunkel <harri@synopsys.COM>]

Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> However, a consensus has formed of late among the XFree86 developers, in
> conjunction with Brian Paul (the mastermind of the Mesa project), that
> libGLU should be shipped, built and installed with the rest of Mesa as part
> of the XFree86 distribution.  I've corresponded with Brian on this point,
> and he suggests that the 3 libraries, libGL, libGLU, and libOSMesa, be
> shipped in one package.  I see no compelling reason to do otherwise.
> 

What is Debian's policy regarding OpenGL libraries provided by 
the hardware vendor (NVidia, for example)? Don't we get a 
packaging conflict here?


Regards

Harri
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