On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 05:30:15PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > * The Mesa problem (specifically, the lack of libGLU.so) really has to be > sorted out upstream if Debian is going to have a sensible handling of > Mesa in our distribution. Alternatively, I can stop shipping the Mesa > stuff altogether in the XFree86 packages until support is ready, but > this will pretty much leave DRI out of the picture. I'd appreciate > feedback on doing this. The XFree86 versions of the Mesa and OSMesa > libraries can be added into woody at a later date without causing any > real disruption. I'd appreciate feedback on the possibility of > releasing 4.0.1-1 (or 4.0.2-1, or whatever) without the XFree86 version > of Mesa. What little feedback I've had so far indicates that people > would rather wait for upstream to resolve this, so that we ship XFree86 > with its own version of libGLU.
I reiterate my initial feedback. Please don't disable DRI. DRI enables development of serious 3D software. I am engaged in such development. It is much easier for one such as I to work around the little GLU problem than it is to work around Debian's not having DRI support. -- Thomas E. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK, USA
