Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:13:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > Depends: libgl1 ; which doesn't exist > > This exists in CVS. libGL.so.1 is what is used by the latest versions of > GLX and Mesa. I think the problem was coming up with a sane way to make > alternatives work for the purpose since libgl1 is almost certainly a > virtual package provided by Mesa, GLX, and probably commercial offerings > as well. > > Compound this with Mesa and GLX merging and you've got something close to > a nightmare.
IMO there's yet another issue to consider (which brings another complication with it): there may be people who will want both mesa and glx, if they own a Riva or Matrox + Voodoo* add-on board. As long as Mesa keeps using the name libMesa* it can probably coexists with GLX (exept perhaps for include files?), but I've heard that they will change to libGL* as well. If they are planning on merging with GLX, the problem of multiple video cards (and drivers) will be theirs I guess.
