/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri to filesystem or somewhere else?

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Jacek Konieczny wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On every x86_64/i686 (multiarch) PLD desktop system I have the same
> problem with installing Mesa-driver-dri-* packages:
> 
> The Mesa-driver-dri-*.i686 packages pull xorg-xserver-server-*.i686
> package (because of the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri directory), which
> conflicts with xorg-xserver-server-*.x86_64.
> 
> This dependency is artificial - the Mesa DRI drivers are used by X
> clients and do not directly depend on the xserver. I think the
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri directory should be moved to some other
> package.
> 
> Is 'filesystem' ok?
> 
> Or should I add /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri to
> xorg-xserver-server-*.x86_64? This will keep the artificial dependency,
> but the x86_64 xserver would be enough to satisfy it.

xorg-xserver-server looks better, it is the xserver that's really
required here. And it keeps deps/provs close to where they are.

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