On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:42:03PM -0900, Christopher Howard wrote: > Hi. This is an educational question. I've been using nix pm for a few days > now, but all the packages I have been using are command-line, or simpler > graphics apps like emacs. I am curious: how does the nix approach (exact > dependencies of each package never change) handle stuff like opengl, which > is a dependency of a lot of software, but is expected to be implemented > differently on each computer system. (In this case, depending on what > graphics card and drivers you use.)
Hello Christopher, All is linked to mesa, which has a bunch of drivers. But a LD_LIBRARY_PATH set on X start allows to override it with things like the nvidia gl drivers, which mainly implement their own mesa-like API shared objects. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
