Arch Linux

Description: Consider splitting useful programs out of the mesa-demos package.

I know it isn't really standard practice to split packages, but sometimes exceptions have been made and I think this is a good case.

mesa-demos is an odd package. It has glxinfo, eglinfo, es2_info, and other *info's which are eminently useful programs. They are commonly used/requested in bug reporting, and they're a good first step in debugging and verification. glxinfo at least is referenced all over the wiki.

But mesa-demos also contains literally _hundreds_ of next-to-worthless binaries that seriously pollute /usr/bin. glxgears and some of its *gears and friends might be useful demos, but passed that the number of commands from this package a user intentionally runs is probably very low. Emphasis on intentionally, because almost all of them have short names that will easily slip into your shell completions or dmenu_run selection. Finally, they all lie flat in /usr/bin so it's not simple to NoExtract them all.

For that reason, I think a "mesa-utils" (like "libva-utils", provider of vainfo) or "mesa-tools" (like "vulkan-tools", provider of vulkaninfo) could be split from mesa-demos that has some select useful packages and leaves the junk.