Mesa in packman repos
Stupid question of today: why is there a MESA version in the packman repos if opensuse provides one too? To be clear I am talking about the Tumbleweed repos. I recall some graphic card reason, but it is a recall that comes remotely and long time ago. So since this recently caused me some trouble because of shifting repo here and there I wanted to understand. Someone can maybe educate me on this. I do not think that patent rights can be an issue here. Thank you in advance.
On 1/31/23 00:28, Stakanov wrote:
Stupid question of today:
why is there a MESA version in the packman repos if opensuse provides one too? To be clear I am talking about the Tumbleweed repos.
I recall some graphic card reason, but it is a recall that comes remotely and long time ago. So since this recently caused me some trouble because of shifting repo here and there I wanted to understand. Someone can maybe educate me on this. I do not think that patent rights can be an issue here.
Thank you in advance.
Stakanov, I don't know the answer, but I suspect it itself is a needed dependency for one of the packman packages like mplayer or wine or one of the other ones, I'm sure there are a handful or more that require it as a dependency. You could always just grab the .srpm and grab the .spec files from the normal and packman ones to check if there are any notable patches or differences. One of the other packman wizards will have to chime in on an exact reason. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:56 AM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 1/31/23 00:28, Stakanov wrote:
Stupid question of today:
why is there a MESA version in the packman repos if opensuse provides one too? To be clear I am talking about the Tumbleweed repos.
I recall some graphic card reason, but it is a recall that comes remotely and long time ago. So since this recently caused me some trouble because of shifting repo here and there I wanted to understand. Someone can maybe educate me on this. I do not think that patent rights can be an issue here.
Thank you in advance.
Stakanov,
I don't know the answer,
openSUSE, Fedora and probably others disabled support for hardware acceleration for several formats (h264, h265, vc1) which is also upstream Mesa default.
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Andrei Borzenkov
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David C. Rankin
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Stakanov