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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 03:45:15
Message-Id: 20200520034458.GA26901@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:14:03PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote
2 > >> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 01:53:19PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > >
4 > > Thank you very much. I've got the update (156 packages) running now.
5 > >I had set "-libglvnd" in make.conf on my main machine, but only against
6 > >xorg-server on my secondary machine. Setting "-libglvnd" in make.conf
7 > >solves the problem.
8 >
9 > Only for now.
10 > "Libglvnd" is scheduled to be removed as a USE flag. I would
11 > definitely suggest to switch to having that one on before it becomes
12 > mandatory.
13 >
14 > It has a lot of benefits over the eselect hack to be able to have
15 > multiple opengl implementations running.
16
17 The reason I had originally turned it off was because when it first
18 showed up as a flag, I checked Google to find out what it was. Almost
19 every hit on webforums was like...
20
21 Person 1 - Help; my "update world" dies
22 Person 2 - Turn off "libglvnd" in make.conf
23 Person 1 - Thank you; my update works fine now
24
25 Add me to the list. If this is to be a new default config setup, I'd
26 appreciate a news item about it, like the python 3.6 to 3.7 switchover.
27
28 --
29 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
30 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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