New extra packages and yum repository

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

> > I'd like to see the RSS-GLX included in redhat, or at least one of the
> > fedora servers.. I have seen rss-gls packages by at least one other
> > person, and by Ximian too...
> >
> > > - rss-glx-0.7.6-1 (screen savers, need new ImageMagick packages from
> >
> > If we're going to ship screen savers, we may as well ship good ones...
>
> As a counter-argument, though, there are enough problems with the GL-based
> xscreensaver savers crashing X servers already, without adding more eye
> candy into the mix which'll do the same (and if you look in bugzilla, you'll
> find there are already bug reports in there from RSS crashing X servers)

Well if GL based screen-savers are crashing X, then the GL libraries (or
X, or the people's graphics cards) is/are broken.  If it's broken enough
that using it will crash the machine, then I would think it
(OpenGL) shouldn't be in the default redhat install at all.

On the other hand, I use all sorts of 3d stuff all the time in debian and
redhat with no issues (Radeon 7000 VE).

 -- noah silva