On jueves, 23 de junio de 2016 11:18:45 P. M. ART Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 21:50:35 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Package: mesa-utils > > Version: 8.3.0-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > tl;dr: make mesa-utils M-A: allowed in order to be able to depend on it as > > mesa-utils:any > > > > Hi! libqt5gui5 now ships a script in order to detect wether users have an > > OpenGL2 compatible video card. It case they don't it sets up an > > environment > > variable to let Qt now that it should use rasterization instead. > > > > The script uses mesa-utils' glxinfo package for this. > > Why do that in a script instead of in qt directly? That seems like a > pretty weird implementation choice... That's a good question and yes, it would have been better if it would be checked directly. The fact is that upstream does really not support using Qt with OpenGL less than 2. But Fedora packagers asked for an exception with a patch that checks for an env variable, and as upstream knows that we distros sometimes need to support this kind of setups and they accepted it. Considering the low amount of users with such a setup I don't think it's worth to work on a patch. -- My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. -- Groucho Marx Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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