[pkg-nvidia-devel] r980 - in /packages/nvidia-graphics-drivers/trunk/debian: changelog control nvidia-glx-dev.install.in

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> I expect most people that install nvidia-glx-dev want to compile
> ordinary OpenGL stuff (they should better install libgl-mesa-dev for
> this job) and don't care whether they link against NVIDIA or MESA - as
> long as it works out-of-the-box (and runs later on fast using NVIDIA's
> libGL.so.1 which they installed on purpose).

> With the recent reorganization of nvidia-glx-dev it is no longer
> possible to compile OpenGL apps without user interaction (headers in
> nonstandard location, /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so not automatically found),
> so I chose to provide a working libgl-dev installation by adding this
> dependency. Otherwise we should expect a lot of bugs like
> "nvidia-glx-dev: can't compile OpenGL app foo3D".

Hm.  I suppose that works, but it feels like it violates the principle of
least surprise versus documenting in the long description of
nvidia-glx-dev that normally users want to install the MESA dev package
instead.  But I don't feel strongly about it.

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