[pkg-nvidia-devel] nvidia-glx-dev and libgl1-dev

[Andreas Beckmann]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
>> What about moving the NVIDIA GL headers to /usr/include/nvidia/GL and
>> depending on libgl1-dev? So we should get much more deterministic setups
...
> That sounds like a much better idea, yes.
> 
>> In this setup, we will *never* need a /usr/lib/libGL.so symlink pointing
>> to the NVIDIA libGL.so.* (but we could create one in /usr/lib/nvidia).
>> This would also mean, no more workarounds in the shlibs files to select
>> *not* nvidia-glx but libgl1.
> 
> Yes.  That means that people who really, really want to link to the NVIDIA
> libraries can just use -L/usr/lib/nvidia.  That sounds great.

Implemented and committed, but not yet tested in detail.

Andreas