the alternates handling was supposed to be less brittle than diversions (what debian does for fglrx/nvidia). Now that fglrx is no more there's still nvidia, and it creates libGL.so symlinks as well.
libglvnd will hopefully make these obsolete at some point in the future, but we're not there yet -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1609110 Title: Do we still need the mesa or mesa-egl directories in /usr/lib/<arch>? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1609110/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp