[arch-dev-public] Mesa 9.1 in testing

Jakob Gruber jakob.gruber at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 04:51:36 EST 2013


On 02/26/2013 05:51 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
> I did this upgrade today on a non-desktop, and was very unpleasantly
> surprised. Did we really mean to suck this many dependencies onto
> machines that aren't even running X11, let alone 3D graphics and such?
> Cairo is used by several packages for font-rendering (rrdtool here
> pulls this in on this box), and now the dependencies have ballooned by
> ~130 MB.

I also had a plus of around 180 MiB (including lib32-mesa) on a standard
desktop running X11, 3D, games and the like, so this does not only
concern non-X11 systems.


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