* David Nusinow wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> -----
>
> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:24:11 +0200
> From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
> To: debian-release@lists.debian.org, 387706@bugs.debian.org
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
> David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#387706 - splitting mesa and mesa-legacy for libosmesa
>
> Summary of the situation: libosmesa6 (offscreen opengl rendering)
> is currently included inside
> libgl1-mesa-swx11 (source: mesa) and libgl1-mesa-glide3 (source:
> mesa-legacy). Both packages conflict with any other libgl1 provider,
> most notably libgl1-mesa-glx, which is a must-have on most modern
> desktop boxes. Thus, installing any package willing to do offscreen
> rendering forbids the use of accelerated opengl for most of the world.
Could this not be resolved by moving libOSmesa.so.6 out of the
libgl1-mesa-swx11 package and into libosmesa6? That would also make it
possible to install both libgl1-mesa-{swx11,glx} along with libosmesa,
wouldn't it?
[...]
- Thierry
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