[arch-general] is mesa, glproto, dri2proto not needed by intel video driver anymore?

[Jan Steffens]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Thanos Zygouris
<athanasios.zygouris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> If i run 'pacman -Qdt' (search for not needed installed packages) i got:
> dri2proto 2.8-1
> glproto 1.4.16-1
> mesa 9.0-1
>
> If i remember right, these were intalled by xf86-video-intel, or
> intel-dri in the past.
> So, my question is: can i remove these packages safely?
>
> My video card is:
> 'Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller'
> and i am using intel driver, with KMS (i915).

mesa's libxatracker is currently only needed for the vmware Xorg
driver. So if you don't need that, they're only builddepends.