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T-u-N-i-X

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From: İstanbul

Registered: 2006-03-14

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fglrx-utils is a dep. of gnome-screensaver ?!

Hey There,

I'm trying to upgrade to GNOME 2.20 but it requires installing fglrx-utils since gnome-screensaver's dependencies require it.. I'm a nVidia user by the way.. :S

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Cerebral

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Re: fglrx-utils is a dep. of gnome-screensaver ?!

gnome-screensaver depends on the libgl pseudo-package, which should be provided by libgl-dri, nvidia-utils, nvidia-96xx-utils, nvidia-71xx-utils, and fglrx-utils.  Pacman chooses fglrx-utils first because (I believe) it's first alphabetically - you'll need to install one of the other providers of 'libgl' first, and that will go away.

scj

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Re: fglrx-utils is a dep. of gnome-screensaver ?!

Is it possible to use to query which packages provide package X?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: fglrx-utils is a dep. of gnome-screensaver ?!

Is it possible to use to query which packages provide package X?

Hm, not directly, but if you do a search for the provision:

$ pacman -Ss ^libgl$
extra/fglrx-utils 8.40.4-1
    Proprietary AMD/ATI userspace tools and libraries for Radeon brand cards.
extra/libgl-dri 6.5.2-1
    Mesa DRI OpenGL library and drivers
extra/nvidia-71xx-utils 1.0.7185-1
    NVIDIA legacy drivers utilities and libraries, 71xx branch.
extra/nvidia-96xx-utils 1.0.9639-1
    NVIDIA legacy drivers utilities and libraries, 96xx branch.
extra/nvidia-utils 100.14.11-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.

Everything that provides libgl shows up, but it doesn't really explain why.  I think a bit of extra info in the search results was planned (I remember a thread about it...)