[Mageia-dev] Update of mesa to git version

Christiaan Welvaart cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Wed Jun 22 20:54:26 CEST 2011


On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, andre999 wrote:

> Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
>> 
>>> I also disable the mesa glut build in the same change since (if i'm
>>> not wrong)
>>> we're supposed to move to freeglut instead.
>> 
>> 
>> Thierry Vignaud is certainly the one that is aware about freeglut versus
>> GLUT ! He is the one that may say if you are right or wrong to do so now !
>> 
>> Beware of the fact that freeglut is not a buildrequire nor a require for
>> some rpms (their spec file need to be modified
>> and they need to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut)

> Just a question ...
> what would happen if freeglut has a provides glut ?
> If neither were installed, wouldn't one be given the option ? (as long as 
> both are available in the repos) (as one sees often enough when installing 
> packages)
> And if both glut and freeglut were installed, and glut were subsequently 
> uninstalled, would packages requiring glut continue to work ?

Freeglut (libfreeglut3) can already replace mesaglut (libmesaglut3).


     Christiaan


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