Re: strange file query

From	Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: strange file query
Date	2022-01-16 23:40 +0100
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On 17/01/2022 10:07, ghe2001 wrote:
> Looking at your link to Wikipedia, it does indeed seem to have something to do with Mesa (there's a paragraph in there about 'shader').  But I've never heard of Mesa, and I certainly didn't install it.
> This sounds like one vote for deletion.  Or maybe .8 votes :-)

No. Leave well enough alone. Mesa is a core part of the graphics stack. 
Heaps of Debian applications use OpenGL for hardware-accelerated 
graphics rendering. Shaders are tiny programs that run on your GPU. If 
you delete this cache, it will likely be recreated, or Bad Things May 
Happen.

You will have many Mesa libraries installed as dependencies:

dpkg -l "*mesa*"

On my system (sid), this removes 100 packages (note "-s" to simulate), 
including xserver-xorg!:

apt-get purge -s -V libglapi-mesa

There are likely other direct dependencies.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <https://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

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strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2022-01-16 21:50 +0100
  Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-16 22:00 +0100
    Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-16 22:10 +0100
      Re: strange file query piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-16 22:20 +0100
        Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-16 23:50 +0100
          Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-17 07:30 +0100
      Re: strange file query Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2022-01-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: strange file query <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-17 07:30 +0100
        Re: strange file query piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-17 13:10 +0100
          Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-17 18:10 +0100
            Re: strange file query Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2022-01-17 19:20 +0100
            Re: strange file query Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-21 18:50 +0100
              Re: strange file query ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2022-01-21 21:50 +0100

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