Re: Driver OPTIONS for graphics/mesa-*

On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM Emmanuel Vadot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  The main problem is that mesa is, and was never meant to be built in a
> splitted way like we do. We've done that "back then (tm)" because of
> the lack of subpackages like any linux distrib.
>  Having a big mesa package is a no-go for me, and this is why I've
> never updated mesa since a long time as some new build option make this
> very problematic.
>  The real solution is having a graphics/mesa port with subpackages, in
> the meantime I honestly don't know what are our best solutions.

I fully agree about subpackages, but meanwhile I'd like to just drop
all options except maybe ZSTD.
This would easen further upgrades until we can subpackagize Mesa.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll wait for Jan's or someone else's opinions.