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Title:
  "mesa" platform is no longer accurate and needs renaming

Status in Mir:
  Fix Committed
Status in mir package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Our "mesa" code and packages mostly represents support for DRM/DRI
  output. And the only use case for this till now also used Mesa for the
  libGL* implementation.

  This is no longer true however. With Nvidia and AMD soon to release
  DRM support in their proprietary drivers, we will be supporting them.
  These drivers will provide DRM display access, but as usual will
  probably provide their own custom libGL* implementations. So won't use
  Mesa.

  This should work for Mir. However when a vendor provides their own
  libGL*, we are technically no longer using Mesa at all. We will still
  be using the "mesa" code path in Mir though. So that all needs
  renaming to something more accurate like "drm" or "dri" etc. Not
  "mesa".

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