Why libpciaccess separated from X server ?

[Kevin Master]

yes, sure I can compile and install the newer libpciaccess library.
But my question is that why do the X server developers want libpciaccess.so 
separated from the X server.

Any good reason to do this ?

 Best Regards


Kevin




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From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
To: Kevin Master <kevinliuwt at yahoo.com>
Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 10:33:01 PM
Subject: Re: Why libpciaccess separated from X server ?

On 04/20/11 11:10 PM, Kevin Master wrote:
> Hello Freedesktop fellows:
> 
> I am now using a Linux distribution RedFlag6 on my PC which carries X server
> 1.7, after a while, I found the system carries a very low pciaccess library
> which version is 0.10.2.
> libpciaccess-0.10.2 have no vga arbiter function support at all. So I have 
been
> kept thinking why the X server developers decide to separate the 
>libpciaccess.so
> out of the X server
> itself?
> This will certainly make some thing not working under special situation like I
> am currently running into.

If you can upgrade the X server, then you can upgrade libpciaccess, so I don't
see the problem.

-- 
    -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
     Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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