Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: gles global USE flag, USE=opengl clarifying

[James Le Cuirot]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:43:59 -0700
Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:

> > Initially I thought of a global USE=gles2, but during the writing of
> > this e-mail, I realized that as USE=opengl doesn't specify a version
> > either (e.g. 3.3 or 4.5), so combined with gles3 not really needing
> > a separate handling, it'd be more consistent with just USE=gles.
> > However I'm rather torn on this - it could just as well be USE=gles2
> > instead, which just specifies that it's GLESv2 or later; then it's
> > also clear we don't deal with old GLESv1 via this.
>
> gles2 is much more common than just gles in the tree.  There are no
> known gles1 applications on desktop Linux, so I'm happy to just remove
> the gles1 flag from media-libs/mesa.
>
> I'd say we go with gles2.

There hasn't been a new release in years but Neverball's git master
supports GLESv1! Even my Vivante-based ARM board can run it with OpenGL
though as it only requires 1.4 or something.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer