Re: Nvidia packaging for Fedora

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

> > > - updated xorg-x11 packaging to separate the Mesa GL stuff
> > > - some sort of alternatives system or post-install scripts to 
> > >  find correct provider of libGL.so.1
> >
> > This already works with the rpms.
>
>
> It does not. That should have been libGL.so.
> See my other mail for details.

nvidia should *not* be the provider for libGL.so, but MesaGL.  Else you 
end up with binaries that work only on/for nvidia users.

> The Mesa libGL rpms conflict with the Nvidia ones. 

No they don't.

> If they are not uninstalled I get graphical glitches and performance
> problems. The GL client and server versions differ. I suppose that's
> because they're both in the linker path

Possibly a packaging bug... but IMO, not caused by the presence of 
Mesa_GL.   again, report it:
bugzilla.livna.org

-- Rex