On 02/04/13 01:04, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 01 avril 2013 à 22:04 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a > écrit : >>> $ apt-cache depends libgl1-mesa-glx >>> ... >>> Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri >>> >> >> Well, "Recommends" are installed by default, aren't they? However, I'm >> not sure why it shouldn't be depending on either "libgl1-mesa-dri" or >> "libgl1-mesa-swx11" here. I mean, MESA doesn't work without either of >> these, does it? > > It should work with indirect GLX if the server supports it, in which > case you don’t need either of the two. I guess this is the reason for > Recommends instead of Depends.
In my case, it is not working that way - the problem is 100% repeatable if I just dpkg --purge libgl1-mesa-dri I am happy to test it in some other way to see if there is a reason why the indirect GLX doesn't work, but I would need some suggestions what to check. > OTOH the metapackage xorg correctly depends on libgl1-mesa-dri. I’m not > sure what can be done to make things better. > That is correct - but according to popcon, 1 in 7 users of xserver-xorg don't have the package xorg, so when they upgrade, they won't get the dependency that way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/515a1376.1020...@pocock.com.au
