Bug 414921

Summary:	app-admin/eselect-opengl: reconsider symlinking includes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2012-05-06 19:29:18 UTC

Considering the fact that more and more headers are going to need to be symlinked in eselect-opengl, I think we should reconsider it.

My suggestion is that we -- instead of linking all the header files -- just symlink/update opengl.pc and put an appropriate -I... in there.

Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-07 13:19:14 UTC

You would have a problem with packages not using opengl expecting the headers to be on the correct place. (which actually is lots and lots of stuff)

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-04-25 17:16:16 UTC

compiling random code would also now require pkg-config invocation which has never been the case in the past, and isn't the case in other distros.  people expect to be able to just "#include <GL/foo.h>" and have it work ...

Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2014-04-25 18:43:04 UTC

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #2)
> compiling random code would also now require pkg-config invocation which has
> never been the case in the past, and isn't the case in other distros. 
> people expect to be able to just "#include <GL/foo.h>" and have it work ...

Agreed. There's no way we can require people to use opengl.pc.

Closing unless there's another solution.