> > Whenever I fix the mesa package, and you upgrade to the new > package, your system will probably break due to that > symlink. ;o) > I can't follow here. The worst thing to happen is that the symlink might not be used anymore, once the "Mesa" library gets fixed to look up in "/usr/lib/dri". The directory "/usr/lib/dri" is unlikely to change some time soon, and even if it did, the orphaned link could hardly cause any problem. Given "DRI" up and running today, this is an acceptable trade-off and allowed furthermore to successfully identify the bug. Anyway, thanks for your advice. > >> Finally, one might also consider a sort of "compat-xorg-x11" >> package to accomodate the needs of older packages, which >> might only exist in binary form, e.g. "Mathematica". > > Bwahahahahaha! ;oP > It's not that ridiculous. "Mathematica" for example has "Open Motif 2.1.30" compiled in statically. After fixing the font problem - the new ISO 10646 fonts lead to empty buttons what I fixed by installing the ISO 8859 fonts afterwards - I am now facing error messages of the kind: "Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine Warning: translation table syntax error: %s" ... For backwards compatibility, Red Hat still provides packages like: "compat-libstdc++-296-2.96", "compat-openldap-2.3.11" and many others. This made me think of the possible need to provide older applications with some legacy stuff. >> PS: "X/OpenGL Maintainence List (xgl-maint@xxxxxxxxxx)" >> ^^^^ >> >> Ouch! Could somebody have a look at this? I am not a native >> speaker, but this appears to be quite exotic. This usually >> writes "Maintenance", doesn't it? > > Illiteracy runs rampant, even at Red Hat! ;o) Fortunately, > it wasn't I who created this internal mailing list, so I get > to laugh and point fingers with the rest of you at whoever it > was. ;oP > Maybe you could also inform your post/web master in order to fix this stupid mistake? Thanks. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
