Re: Driver OPTIONS for graphics/mesa-*

If you manage to have everything working and being able to update mesa without adding to much build time for users and package builders you have my blessing on any commits :)

19 mai 2026 18:29:53 Gleb Popov <[email protected]>:

> 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.