# To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@ncmir.ucsd.edu :
> > Hm. XFree86 4.2 (and maybe earlier) supports OpenGL natively. Why
> > have all those different pakages?
>
> The XFree86 4.2 support is in the xlibmesa-dev package. The others are
> for XFree86 3.X which we still include (because 4.2 doesn't support all
> the hardware supported in 3.X). I gather different packages support
> different hardware (but I have never used OpenGL...).
>
> I could build two binary packages (or more): One without OpenGL and
> another using the XFree86 4.2 OpenGL.
It's hard for me to give a definitive answer since I'm not a Debian
user. Do the libraries have different names?
I suppose that we can go back to the old solution of allowing the user
to build the GL support themselves. I guess I see why TC did it that
way now.
spl
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