Re: Bug#304854: xbase-clients: please add xgl-clients package
On Sat, 2005-16-04 at 04:25 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:
> Le Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:40:53 +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck a écrit :
>
> > I tried removing all gl related packages on a system which had no hardware
> > supporting it anyway and with a dire need for harddisk space, but couldn't
> > because xbase-clients contains a number of gl applications. I had to build
> > an empty package with equivs to satisfy the gl dependency, which is rather
> > stupid.
> >
> > Would you please split out the gl clients into their own package? (from a
> > cursory look, most are just test or diagnostics applications anyway)
>
> Sadly next release of gnome and maybe mozilla will use cairo ... which
> need the gl support (which is not only about DRI)
Looking at the reason why he wants to get rid of libGL, I suspect he
doesn't care about GTK... anyway, it's not true that Cairo requires
OpenGL (apt-cache show libcairo1 | grep Depends).
> Splitting the clients may make sense though removing the libs is quite
> dangerous (how about removing libm ? i don't need a math lib :)
That's what package dependencies are for.
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