Glut package changed, no documentation in 7.3

[Patrick Paul <patpaul MIT EDU>]

Here's my problem:  

While playing around with some 3d programs, I kept running into the 
problem of glut.h not being found.  Now, I knew from 7.2 days that this 
file was in the Mesa package, or more precisely the Mesa-devel package. 
So I do a rpm -qa|grep Mesa.  Nothing.  Look on the cd, mirrors, srpms 
dir; nothing.  I get some help by using the command rpm -q 
--whatprovides Mesa-devel, and it tells me that Mesa-devel is now 
provided in XFree86-devel.  But, glut.h still doesn't exist.  After some 
digging, and some help from mharris redhat, I found that it now exists 
in it's own packages, glut and glut-devel.  Fine and dandy, I can 
compile the program and play with my 3d app.

But, why wasn't this documented?  I'd imagine that a a change like 
this(integrating most of one package into another, and creating new 
packages for glut), should be documented in the RELEASE-NOTES, which is 
the first thing I re-read when I couldn't find glut.h.  An example of 
things in the RELEASE-NOTES is

postgresql has been updated, be sure to do pg_dumpall before upgrading.
initscripts now disables DMA on ide cd-roms by default
we now include blah-blah language

Something like
the Mesa packages are now integrated into XFree86, and glut, which was 
in Mesa, is now in it's own binary and devel packages

would have saved me a bit of time.  I don't understand why I had to look 
elsewhere to find this information.  I feel it should have been 
documented.  I can say, and I'm sure that many agree, that wasting time 
is the thing I enjoy doing least.  By not documenting this, 7.3 
effectively wasted my time.  Sour experience definitely.  I wonder what 
UnitedLinux is like....

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Patrick Paul
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