FS#4001 - Things should depend on glut, not freeglut

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Saturday, 18 February 2006, 20:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I've noticed several things depend on freeglut, e.g. wine, mesa-apps, and kdegraphics. They shouldn't. If you use freeglut rather than glut, Wine will have all sorts of problems - segfaults and stuff; and mesa-apss works quite fine with either glut or freeglut. Also, freeglut provides glut, so having things depend on freeglut rather than glut (or anything that provides it) doesn't seem too bright. Since freeglut causes some problems, I think glut should be preferred; if people want to replace it with freeglut, they can any time they want.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 23:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  glut is out now, we only have freeglut. The bug that caused problems on some opengl applications has been fixed.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 18 February 2006, 22:33 GMT
The point with glut is that it's no longer developed and the code is "non-free", as in, you are allowed to compile it, but you aren't allowed to patch or change it. The intention is to get rid of glut completely and move to freeglut.

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