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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2010-08-25 09:27, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Really? I remember faintly when I wrote my intel-nvidia switcher that 
> libGL.so was sometimes preferred over libGL.so.1.
*sometimes* is correct. At that time there were fancy init.d and
maintainer scripts that could create random permutations of symlinks.
Luckily most of it was dead code.

> What about a program dlopening libGL.so ? I guess that some of the
> games might do that.
Then they need a dependency on libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl1-dev |
libgl1-dev. Eventually somebody would notice that this is BAD. Even
NVIDIA realized that dlopening unversioned libsomething.so should be
avoided - they fixed libvdpau, they'll drop .so links for their internal
libraries/plugins/whatever in 256.xx and for the other cases (e.g.
libcuda.so) we have lintian overrides :-)

> Are you sure that libGL.so is *never* used at runtime?
No. But that's just another way to shoot yourself in the foot.


Andreas