[pkg-nvidia-devel] r977 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: changelog nvidia-glx-ia32.links.in nvidia-glx-ia32.lintian-overrides.in nvidia-glx.links.in nvidia-glx.lintian-overrides.in

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Wed Jun 2 09:38:01 UTC 2010


anbe-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> Author: anbe-guest
> Date: Wed Jun  2 08:34:47 2010
> New Revision: 977
> 
> URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/?sc=1&rev=977
> Log:
>   * nvidia-glx{,-ia32}: ship (possibly dangling) /usr/lib{,32}/libGL.so
>     symlink pointing to the diverted libGL.so.1.2 from libgl1-mesa-glx

I'm even considering adding a dependency on libgl1-mesa-glx to
nvidia-glx. While this library is not used, it would limit the amount of
possible OpenGL package combinations:

* none
* MESA libs
* MESA libs + MESA devel
* NVIDIA libs + MESA libs
* NVIDIA libs + MESA libs + MESA devel
* NVIDIA libs + MESA libs + NVIDIA devel + MESA devel

Also installing any package containing something linked against libGL.so
already automatically pulls libgl1-mesa-glx because of the libgl1
dependency.

What do you think?
Closes: #389971: nvidia-glx: nvidia-glx to provide libgl1
(nvidia-glx would "indirectly" provide libgl1 by depending on it)

Andreas



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