GIMP may not be on the installer, but it's in repo and can use OpenCL. If Ubuntu compiles Mesa without OpenCL support, that means using OpenCL requires switching to the Oibaf PPA version or to Xorg-edgers. That, in turn, forces users other than hackers to use these PPA's, which are meant for people like myself familiar with system administration.
Unless someone wants to start a "mesa-stable" PPA like the "kdenlive- stable" (sunab) PPA, I see a lot of headaches coming from this decision. Not compiling in support is quite different than simply not including a library that can be brought in from the main repos. I can only see one valid reason to disable something like OpenCL or VDPAU: if there is at least one videocard anywhere for which enabling them will generate a black screen, a refusal to modeset, or at least a refusal to run 3d graphics. Is this the case with OpenCL? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319835 Title: please enable opencl Status in “mesa” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Please enable OpenCL in mesa package which is already available in debian package and was disabled in 10.1.0-1ubuntu1. Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1319835/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
