[OE-core] mesa-dri vs mesa-xlib

[Koen Kooi]

Op 30 jul. 2012, om 19:15 heeft "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently been looking at the Mesa packaging (via the work that
> Damien Lespiau has been doing) and am confused as to why there are
> both mesa-dri and mesa-xlib packages.  I'm also no Mesa expert, so I
> thougth I should mail this list...
> 
> The main difference appear to be that mesa-dri uses DRI to render,
> whilst mesa-xlib doesn't (so it uses indirect rendering).  As DRI
> support is hardware specific so surely this could and should be turned
> into a FEATURE of some sort, and then let mesa pick appropriately
> between DRI or indirect (xlib) rendering.  I can't think of a
> situation where you'd want to use indirect rendering when you have DRI
> available.
> 
> Can anyone see any problems with merging the recipes into a single
> "mesa" recipe, and making DRI support conditional on a feature?

They produce 2 differently named shared libraries and currently some images need both. If that's a bug or not, I don't know :)

regards,

Koen