The point here is that today it is being *disabled* and in the future it is 
completely *going away.*  Anyone care to argue with that?  I'd love to be wrong 
about it.  

> On May 26, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Adam Jackson <a...@nwnk.net> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 09:14 +0200, Laurent Lamalle wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have just discovered, through the x11-us...@lists.apple.com mailing
>> list, that Xorg deprecated some software component (IGLX?) necessary for
>> remote OpenGL viewing.
> 
> As I just said:
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2016-May/058072.html
> 
> Another awkward thing about this, I suppose, is that on OSX the X server
> is started implicitly on demand and there's no reasonable way to configure
> things like command line options. And, that there's no direct rendering
> support to be had on OSX. So we could probably reasonably change those
> defaults for that platform, since the opportunity for privilege escalation
> is lower as X11.app runs unprivileged.
> 
> - ajax
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