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Bug#338047: Background of packaging decisions

Hello,

can anyone shed a light on the background of the packaging decisions? Alex 
Deucher suggest that libgl1-mesa-dri might become the  official DRI 
driver source in the future

http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2006-January/031585.html


I considered installing  libgl1-mesa-dri, but actually I do not like this 
too much, as I would like to be able to compile a KDE application 
spontaneously ;):

root@deepdance:/sys -> LANG=en_GB apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kdelibs4-dev kspy libarts1-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libopenexr-dev 
libqt3-mt-dev x-window-system x-window-system-core
  xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 10.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


This one looks better:
root@deepdance:/sys -> LANG=en_GB apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri/unstable 
libgl1-mesa-dri-dev/unstable mesa-common-dev/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri-dev
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for mesa-common-dev
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-dev mesa-common-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  x-window-system x-window-system-core xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl 
xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-dev mesa-common-dev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 8380kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


I think I wil  stick with the manual installation approach for the DRI 
driver unless I know more about the background of those packaging 
decisions ;-) or unless xlibmesa-dri contains the savage driver.

Regards,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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