[RFC 0/3] Add an OpenGL ES diversion mechanism to glx-alternatives

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Thu Jul 21 07:47:27 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-21 08:43, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've took the liberty to implement some sort of basic OpenGL ES support to the 
> glx-alternatives package as discussed some days ago. It is not meant to be 
> finished but as a base for discussion.

Nice. From a first glance I can say it looks good.
validate_diverted_symlinks is not needed because we don't have any old
messed up diverted links.

> The i386 / x86_64 parts still included can probably go away, as I don't think 
> there is dedicated OpenGL ES hardware with vendor drivers for these arches.

We can use it right now to check whether diversions and alternatives
look sane without needing a armel chroot.
For a release we should drop them (unless someone finds a use for them),
but we can easily add more architectures later.

In any case I would keep the triplet "/" so that the package also works
if backported to squeeze (which I plan to do to get newer nvidia drivers
there) which does not use multiarch directories. You probably haven't
decided whether you want backport your new driver.

For the .so links ... let me draft some proposal for reorganization of
the files installed my the MESA packages ...

Andreas



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