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The other day I installed Celestia for the entertainment of my son, who is |
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delighted with anything stellar / planetary. Celestia wouldn't start up, |
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and, long-story-short, I tracked down the issue to the symlinks: |
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/usr/lib64/libGL.so |
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/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 |
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which ultimately point to |
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/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.2.0, |
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provided by media-libs/mesa. Naturally, I assumed I'd made a mistake with |
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`eselect` at some point, so I checked with `eselect opengl list` and found |
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that, as expected, my selected opengl implementation was nvidia. Just in |
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case, I switched over to xorg-x11 (mesa) and back again, but this didn't |
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fix the problem. |
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Manually redirecting these to /usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so |
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(provided by x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers) works, however, of course, portage |
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doesn't know anything about this, so the update I received today for |
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media-libs/mesa reverted these symlinks back to pointing at mesa libs. |
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So the questions I have are these: |
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1) Am I reasonable in expecting `eselect opengl` to maintain these |
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symlinks? I feel like it's a reasonable expectation, but perhaps there's |
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just yet another thing I have to learn / understand. |
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2) Should I be logging a bug (against eselect, or perhaps celestia, since |
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this is the only app which seems to have suffered this fate -- games like |
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Torchlight 2 and utils like glxgears work just fine; glxinfo reports NVIDIA |
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extensions), or is there just something I've fundamentally missed or messed |
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up here? |
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Thanks |
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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing |
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You will spend your life completely wasting your time |
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You will be doing things you don't like doing |
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In order to go on living |
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That is, to go on doing things you don't like doing |
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Which is stupid. |
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- Alan Watts |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gXTZM_uPMY |
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*Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. * |