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[PATCH core-updates] gnu: mesa: Update to 21.1.4.

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias <at> protonmail.com>, "49339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
 <49339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#49339] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: mesa: Update to 21.1.4.
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 22:55:55 +0200

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John Kehayias via Guix-patches via schreef op do 08-07-2021 om 01:35 [+0000]:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> 
> On Monday, July 5th, 2021 at 11:35 AM:
> 
> > libepoxy doesn't build (patch paths?). On #guix there was discussion of fixing these problems, could an updated patch be sent here for testing?
> 
> This was easy to solve: I switched where libepoxy was looking for EGL and GL libraries to use libglvnd rather than mesa, as well as adding libglvnd as an input. Also added libglvnd as an input into xorg-server.
> 
> Looking at other packages that depend on e.g. libepoxy/mesa/etc. seems like many will need libglvnd as an input now? Is that what we want to move to (I take it is optional, but perhaps a move in the right direction)?

If with this update of mesa, (almost) every package using mesa also needs libglvnd,
then why not add 'libglvnd' to the propagated-inputs mesa, for about the same reasons
that 'atk' has 'glib' in 'propagated-inputs'?

Not sure if the comparison applies though.

Greetings,
Maxime

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