Thu, 07 Dec 2006 @ 11:05 -0500, Greg A. Woods said:

> Once upon a time I could run something like Ethereal on a
> SPARCstation-2.  Now it won't even run usuably on an SS-20 and it took
> nearly a week to build because of all the unnecessary OpenGL/MESA
> requirement forced on it by it use of GTK2+.

Before long OpenGL will be a basic requirement for X itself.

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