Hi All, So a lot has been said about $subject and FESco has asked me to send a mail to the devel list describing the what and why of this change. First the what: ever since AMD and NVIDIA started shipping their own Linux drivers we have had multiple competing implementations of libGL.so.1 (and friends) where the way the linker works means that there can be only one. This has made installing AMD or NVIDIA's drivers harder then it has any rights to be and this has been hurting out users, some of which want to use the vendor supplied drivers. It often causes broken systems and makes switching between drivers unnecessarily hard. libglvnd is a solution for this it is a vendor neutral implementation of libGL.so.1 which acts as a dispatcher to one or more glvnd enabled libGL implementations installed on the systems. This also mostly explains the why of this change, except for why also bring it to Fedora 25 and not just to Fedora 26 and later? The main reason for this is a non-technical reason, we (as in the Fedora project) have quite vocally publicly promised we would do so: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2016/11/01/discrete-graphics-and-fedora-workstation-25/ And from a technical pov it is ready, despite all the noise about this update for F25, 2 issues where found with it in updates-testing and both of these issues have been fixed. For most people it has been rock-solid and it has received a lot of positive karma in bodhi as this is an update many people would like to see for F25. The rock-solidness is not really a surprise, this change has been long long in the making and initially was supposed to land for F25, so many necessary changes to lowlevel GL users like the Xorg xserver and mutter (when running as a wayland compositor) had already landed by F25 gold. The biggest issue with the update was that it broke Sway (specifically libwlc) and I handled that badly after working on this for a long time I was in a rush and I decided to push this update to F25 updates-testing anyways which I should NOT have done. I should have first fixed the Sway issue and I apologize for my bad handling of this. Note in case it has not been clear, that the Sway issue has been fixed now and I've send the libwlc fix for this upstream where it has already been merged. The other issue was that libglvnd broke some steam games, this also has been resolved now, although I need to respin libglvnd + mesa with a slightly better fix for this. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
