[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:

>> 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

> Hmm, that means:
> xserver-xorg-core	for libglx.so
> libgl1-mesa-glx		for libGL.so.1
> libgl1-mesa-dev		for libGL.so

And the fglrx packages, which are the easiest first step, I think.  We
should already be close to fglrx being able to use the same infrastructure
that we're using for NVIDIA.

> Sounds like a more long-term plan to convince xserver-xorg-core ...

I've already talked to Julien about it a little bit.  We of course will
have to get it right and make sure it doesn't break anything, but I don't
think it's completely infeasible.

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