[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#594298: Bug#594298: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives: alternatives are very strange and probably not correct

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 25 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly as the packages are designed, since applications
> should be linked against the MESA (free) library, not against the
> proprietary NVIDIA library.  The libGL.so link is only used while linking
> software, not at runtime.

Really? I remember faintly when I wrote my intel-nvidia switcher that 
libGL.so was sometimes preferred over libGL.so.1.

What about a program dlopening libGL.so ? I guess that some of the
games might do that.

Are you sure that libGL.so is *never* used at runtime?

Best wishes

Norbert
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