On 02/09/13 16:10, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 11:17:02AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: >> Em 02-09-2013 10:55, Ken Moffat escreveu: >>> >>> Mesa recommends llvm because radeon 3D drivers need them. For (at >>> least) intel it doesn't *need* llvm. >>> >>> ĸen >>> >> >> Thanks for this post, ĸen. >> >> Long ago, I have commented something like that. I use nvidia proprietary >> in one system (which I am using to write this), do not have radeon, and >> it does not seem I need installing llvm. I wonder if it would be good to >> add the word "only" just before "required", in the "Warning", with >> respect to radeon versus llvm, but perhaps it is necessary for something >> else and is left like that just in case. >> > > I'm in favour of rewording it. > > Actually, I'm not convinced that the frightening 'Warning' is > really necessary. We could change 'Recommended' to something like: > > libvdpau-x.y (to build VDPAU drivers), elfutils-x.y AND llvm-x.y > (both required for radeon 3D drivers) > > OR > > we could move elfutils and llvm to Required with a note (both > are only needed for radeon 3D drivers) > > Perhaps we also need to draw people's attention to the explanation > of --with-gallium-drivers= before we show the configure command ? > > ĸen >
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