Re: xlibmesa naming and relationships

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >  (I got to get myself a Radeon before that happens[0]) and that's just
> >  easier if I have a separate GLU package.  The other reason was to have
> >  a GLU package that the nvidia packages can depend on.  I *hate* the way
> >  the current packages work (depending on the xlibmesa packages just to
> >  divert their libGL files out of the way).
> 
> I don't have anything against the separate GLU packages, on the
> contrary, I appreciate it a lot for the DRI snapshot packages, where I
> had to use similar ugly tricks.
> 
> My point is that the semantics of the libgl1 virtual package have
> changed from 'libGL.so.1 and libGLU.so.1' to 'libGL.so.1 only', which
> breaks packages that depend on libgl1 only but need libGLU. Did you
> consider this, and what were your plans to handle it?

Fix the packages that depend on it ? I already did so with my packages,
anyway, you have to changes the dependencies, since you don't have
xlibmesa but xlibmesa-gl and xlibmesa-glu, now (and yes, i (build) depend on
xlibmesa-gl | libgl1 and so).

Friendly,

Sven Luther