On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:58:24 +0000, Keith Whitwell <kei...@vmware.com> wrote: > This promotes a private interface to a public one, right? If so that > isn't really doing us any favours as next people will complain when that > newly public interface varies between releases. > > If you want to save disk space by sharing components, what about an > alternate approach -- investigate methods for building all the DRI > drivers into a single binary? That would keep the internal interface > private & possibly share more space than this approach. > > Keith
The point of being optional was that distros that have a clue and know that these are private interfaces for the drivers built against that shared core could save disk space (and us driver developers could save build time, too). Note that there is no version number on the library -- ABI stability is very much not guaranteed, and you have to ship them all as one big package (which is no big deal once you've gone to shared core).
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