[pkg-nvidia-devel] separate packages for libGL.* and nvidia_drv.so

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> Considering the namespace of other packages, what about moving the
> nvidia GLX libraries (libGL.so.1 and friends) to

>   libgl1-nvidia-glx
>   libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32
>   libgl1-nvidia-dev

> (instead of nvidia-libgl1{,-dev,-ia32}) while leaving the Xorg driver in
> nvidia-glx for now (even if this is not the best choice, too)?

You're right, I think this is a better naming scheme.

> Would the Xorg team agree if we renamed our package nvidia-glx to
> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia ?

I suspect no one would care, but I'd rather hold off on that for a bit
since that's a much bigger change.  Maybe something to look at after
squeeze.

> Where to insert $LEGACY in these package names? Probably best fit would be

>   libgl1-nvidia-legacy-123xx-glx
>   libgl1-nvidia-legacy-123xx-glx-ia32
>   libgl1-nvidia-legacy-123xx-dev

Yeah, that looks right to me.

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