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Bug#645239: libgl1-mesa-dri: Please include the Nouveau drivers



Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> (13/10/2011):
> I think it's time to install the Nouveau 3D drivers by default,
> i.e. move them to the libgl1-mesa-dri package.  While not fully
> supported for all cards (e.g. there is currently no upstream maintainer
> for the classic Mesa driver and for nvfx), these drivers should give
> most users a much better experience than the swrast driver.

ACK. We need to be a bit cautious with the Replaces: for the backported
packages, but nothing dramatic I guess.

> With the advent of technologies as GNOME Shell and WebGL in web
> browsers, out-of-the-box OpenGL support is also becoming more and more
> important.  Besides, other current distributions (e.g. Ubuntu 11.10,
> openSUSE 12.1 and Slackware 13.37) have also followed the Fedora 15 lead
> to install the Nouveau 3D drivers by default.

Agreed. Just fixed somebody's setup by suggesting the installation of
this package…

Mraw,
KiBi.

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