[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#594297: Bug#594297: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives: breaks DRI because overrides libGL from mesa

[Russ Allbery]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:
> On Mi, 25 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Which is exactly the same thing that would have happened with nvidia-glx
>> in any previous version of the package.

> Ok, consider this as a request to make the alternatives allow me
> to switch to mesa.

>> both packages and select MESA, but that has never previously been possible
>> and is not yet possible.

> So it is the plan to allow switching?

Yeah, this is definitely the plan.  As you've noticed, we also need to
handle libglx, and the other packages should cooperate and set up the
alternatives so that we don't have to do the current diversion trick, and
there may be some other unexpected problems to sort out, but that's where
we're trying to end up.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>