[gentoo-desktop] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

[gentoo-desktop] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

[Cedric Sodhi]

Hello everyone,

as by our discussion on #gentoo-desktop, we would like to sort out the historical artefact "virtual/opengl" which dates back to before Wayland and has become somewhat inappropriate (a misnomer, not sufficiently configurable, or redundant depending on one's perspective).

A quick recap of the situation, a description of the problems and reasons why it should be deprecated, as well as the "way forward" are documented here:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:ManDay/Deprecating_the_virtual_OpenGL_ebuild

At this point we would like to invite everyone to enter additional feedback - including potential problems which are not covered by the article. When we're sure that everything has been considered, we can move to deprecating "virtual/opengl".


Thank you!
Cedric

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] Deprecating virtual/opengl in favor of media-libs/libglvnd

[Cedric Sodhi]

FTR this thread is closed, c.f. gentoo-dev

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