On Sat, 2005-16-04 at 04:25 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote: > Le Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:40:53 +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck a Ãcrit : > > > I tried removing all gl related packages on a system which had no hardware > > supporting it anyway and with a dire need for harddisk space, but couldn't > > because xbase-clients contains a number of gl applications. I had to build > > an empty package with equivs to satisfy the gl dependency, which is rather > > stupid. > > > > Would you please split out the gl clients into their own package? (from a > > cursory look, most are just test or diagnostics applications anyway) > > Sadly next release of gnome and maybe mozilla will use cairo ... which > need the gl support (which is not only about DRI)
Looking at the reason why he wants to get rid of libGL, I suspect he doesn't care about GTK... anyway, it's not true that Cairo requires OpenGL (apt-cache show libcairo1 | grep Depends). > Splitting the clients may make sense though removing the libs is quite > dangerous (how about removing libm ? i don't need a math lib :) That's what package dependencies are for. -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
