On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 22:21:14 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, would you reconsider if a patch was to be provided? > I wouldn't. We don't split the kernel package in tiny bits, I don't think it'd be particularly more appropriate to do it for mesa. > The size issue would be one reason, other reasons would be being able > to switch the libglide3 Suggests into a Depends (but I can understand > how you might not find this really important :), not requiring libdrm > backends for drivers one does not use, and being able to Recommend a > dri specific driver from the xorg video driver. We already Recommend libgl1-mesa-dri from the xserver packages, and Depend on it from the xorg metapackage. The chip-specific libdrm backends are tiny. I don't find the glide argument really important ;) and the size issue is IMO fairly minor as well. Cheers, Julien
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