Bug#438842: description prompts user to install libgl1-mesa-dri, but it isn't in Recommends
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:38 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:48:48AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> >
> > In latest versions of our packages, xserver-xorg recommends
> > libgl1-mesa-dri,
>
> Oh, ok. Sorry for the oversight.
>
> > so the recommends is kind of already here on the
> > technical side... Is there anybody out there that want to use direct
> > rendering without having X installed?
>
> I think strictly it would be more correct to put it in
> libgl1-mesa-glx, [...]
I really don't think so, because libgl1-mesa-dri is useless without
xserver-xorg-core on the same machine, but libgl1-mesa-glx is useful
without libgl1-mesa-dri.
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