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

Thanos Zygouris athanasios.zygouris at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 19:36:21 EDT 2012


On Thu 18 Oct 16:09, Jan Steffens wrote:
> 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.

OK, all three packages removed and everything seems to run smooth, so no
problem here. Thanks Jan. Case closed.


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