On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:10:47AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >> "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@whitestar.soark.net> writes:
>
> > My rough naming scheme is as follows: xlibmesa3-dri, xlibmesa-dri-dev,
> > xlibosmesa3-dri, xlibosmesa-dri-dev, and xserver-dri.
>
> I would drop the xlibosmesa packages. libOSMesa is a software only
> client side off-screen rendering library.
>
> > The 4 mesa packages are obvious, they will conflict, provide, and
> > replace their counterparts[1].
>
> You forgot the footnotes.
Ahh, yes, my mistake.
1: Just s/-dri//g to get their counterparts.
2: I'll append the list to the bottom of this message.
>
> > Right now I'm undecided on how to do the override, calling dpkg-divert
> > from the preinst and postrm would work, but seems to be more of a kludge.
>
> Is there other way? I actually think it's safer that way.
Using alternatives might work, but Branden would have to very explicitly
support that.
It might be possible to get X to search a different module path first,
but all examples of that turn out to be very ugly in the config file,
I'll keep poking.
Hopefully Branden will have some ideas.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
>
> --
> Marcelo
usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ati_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/glint_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/tdfx_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/vga_drv.o
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
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