Nvidia packaging in Fedora (Summary)

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Fri Jan 28 20:46:55 UTC 2005


> > - I still say the libGL devel stuff and libGLU should be split from
> > xorg-x11-devel.
> 
> You keep saying that.  But, why?  There is no other/alternative GL 
> implementation in Core or Extras (Nvidia's doesn't/shouldn't count in 
> this discussion).

Why do you keep saying that Nvidia's does not count.
What exactly is the problem with their GL headers/library?

> On the other hand, I thought one of Mike's original motivations for 
> splitting off Mesa-GL was to allow for drop-in replacements.  I'm not sure 
> if there is value anymore in packaging these separately.

I heard X will be modularized for FC5 so all libraries will be split up 
like that. Is that not the case?

-- 
Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
Cornell University




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