Index: general/genlib/genlib.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/genlib.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ general/genlib/genlib.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -157,6 +157,4 @@
 <!--<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="qjson.xml"/>-->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="spidermonkey.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="spirv-headers.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="spirv-tools.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="talloc.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="telepathy-glib.xml"/>
Index: neral/genlib/spirv-headers.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/spirv-headers.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,138 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-download-http "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Headers/archive/refs/tags/vulkan-sdk-&spirv-headers-version;/SPIRV-Headers-&spirv-headers-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-md5sum        "399c9f104077ccf0786630f06b06d6b0">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-size          "456 KB">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-buildsize     "6.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-headers-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="spirv-headers" xreflabel="SPIRV-Headers-&spirv-headers-version;">
-  <?dbhtml filename="spirv-headers.html"?>
-
-  <title>SPIRV-Headers-&spirv-headers-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="spirv-headers">
-    <primary sortas="a-spirv-headers">SPIRV-Headers</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title>Introduction to SPIRV-Headers</title>
-
-    <para>
-      The <application>SPIRV-Headers</application> package contains headers
-      that allow for applications to the SPIR-V language and instruction set
-      with Vulkan. SPIR-V is a binary intermediate language for representing
-      graphical shader stages and compute kernels for multiple Khronos APIs,
-      including OpenGL and Vulkan.
-    </para>
-
-    &lfs120_checked;
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&spirv-headers-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&spirv-headers-download-ftp;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download MD5 sum: &spirv-headers-md5sum;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download size: &spirv-headers-size;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated disk space required: &spirv-headers-buildsize;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated build time: &spirv-headers-time;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SPIRV-Headers Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="cmake"/>
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of SPIRV-Headers</title>
-
-    <note>
-      <para>
-        This tarball
-        <filename>SPIRV-Headers-&spirv-headers-version;.tar.gz</filename> will
-        extract to the directory
-        <filename class="directory">SPIRV-Headers-vulkan-sdk-&spirv-headers-version;</filename>.
-      </para>
-    </note>
-
-    <para>
-      Install <application>SPIRV-Headers</application> by running the following
-      commands:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd    build &amp;&amp;
-
-cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -G Ninja .. &amp;&amp;
-ninja</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      This package does not come with a test suite.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="content">
-    <title>Contents</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-          None
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          None
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          /usr/include/spirv and
-          /usr/share/cmake/SPIRV-Headers
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-  </sect2>
-</sect1>
Index: neral/genlib/spirv-tools.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/spirv-tools.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,312 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-download-http "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/archive/refs/tags/v&spirv-tools-version;/SPIRV-Tools-&spirv-tools-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-md5sum        "13d654053bd8145f9e438c38e9021b30">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-size          "3.0 MB">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-buildsize     "69 MB">
-  <!ENTITY spirv-tools-time          "1.2 SBU (with parallelism=8)">
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="spirv-tools" xreflabel="SPIRV-Tools-&spirv-tools-version;">
-  <?dbhtml filename="spirv-tools.html"?>
-
-  <title>SPIRV-Tools-&spirv-tools-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="spirv-tools">
-    <primary sortas="a-spirv-tools">SPIRV-Tools</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title>Introduction to SPIRV-Tools</title>
-
-    <para>
-      The <application>SPIRV-Tools</application> package contains libraries
-      and utilities for processing SPIR-V modules.
-    </para>
-
-    &lfs120_checked;
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&spirv-tools-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&spirv-tools-download-ftp;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download MD5 sum: &spirv-tools-md5sum;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download size: &spirv-tools-size;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated disk space required: &spirv-tools-buildsize;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated build time: &spirv-tools-time;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SPIRV-Tools Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="cmake"/> and
-      <xref linkend="spirv-headers"/>
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of SPIRV-Tools</title>
-
-    <para>
-      Install <application>SPIRV-Tools</application> by running the following
-      commands:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd    build &amp;&amp;
-
-cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr     \
-      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release      \
-      -DSPIRV_WERROR=OFF              \
-      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON          \
-      -DSPIRV_TOOLS_BUILD_STATIC=OFF  \
-      -DSPIRV-Headers_SOURCE_DIR=/usr \
-      -G Ninja .. &amp;&amp;
-ninja</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Now, as the &root; user:
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="commands">
-    <title>Command Explanations</title>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DSPIRV_WERROR=OFF</parameter>: This switch stops the build
-      system from treating warnings as errors.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON</parameter>: This switch forces the
-      build system to install shared libraries instead of static libraries.
-    </para>
-    
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DSPIRV_TOOLS_BUILD_STATIC=OFF</parameter>: This switch
-      disables building static versions of the libraries.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DSPIRV-Headers_SOURCE_DIR</parameter>: This switch tells the
-      build system that <xref linkend="spirv-headers" role="nodep"/> is
-      installed in /usr. This is needed since the build system tries to use an
-      internal copy by default.
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="content">
-    <title>Contents</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-          spirv-as,
-          spirv-cfg,
-          spirv-dis,
-          spirv-lesspipe.sh,
-          spirv-link,
-          spirv-lint,
-          spirv-objdump,
-          spirv-opt,
-          spirv-reduce, and
-          spirv-val
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          libSPIRV-Tools-diff.so,
-          libSPIRV-Tools-link.so,
-          libSPIRV-Tools-lint.so,
-          libSPIRV-Tools-opt.so,
-          libSPIRV-Tools-reduce.so,
-          libSPIRV-Tools-shared.so, and
-          libSPIRV-Tools.so
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          /usr/include/spirv-tools and
-          /usr/lib/cmake/SPIRV-Tools
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-as">
-        <term><command>spirv-as</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            creates a SPIR-V binary module from SPIR-V assembly text
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-as">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-as">spirv-as</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-cfg">
-        <term><command>spirv-cfg</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            shows the control flow graph in "dot" format
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-cfg">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-cfg">spirv-cfg</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-dis">
-        <term><command>spirv-dis</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            disassembles a SPIR-V binary module
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-dis">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-dis">spirv-dis</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-lesspipe.sh">
-        <term><command>spirv-lesspipe.sh</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            automatically disassembles a .SPV file for 'less'
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-lesspipe.sh">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-lesspipe.sh">spirv-lesspipe.sh</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-link">
-        <term><command>spirv-link</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            links SPIR-V binary files together
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-link">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-link">spirv-link</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-lint">
-        <term><command>spirv-lint</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            checks a SPIR-V binary module for errors
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-lint">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-lint">spirv-lint</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-objdump">
-        <term><command>spirv-objdump</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            dumps information from a SPIR-V binary
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-objdump">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-objdump">spirv-objdump</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-opt">
-        <term><command>spirv-opt</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            performs optimizations on SPIR-V binary files
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-opt">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-opt">spirv-opt</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-reduce">
-        <term><command>spirv-reduce</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            reduces a SPIR-V binary file
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-reduce">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-reduce">spirv-reduce</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="spirv-val">
-        <term><command>spirv-val</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            validates a SPIR-V binary file
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools spirv-val">
-            <primary sortas="b-spirv-val">spirv-val</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libSPIRV-Tools">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSPIRV-Tools.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            contains functions for processing SPIR-V modules
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="spirv-tools libSPIRV-Tools">
-            <primary sortas="c-libSPIRV-Tools">libSPIRV-Tools.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
-  </sect2>
-</sect1>
Index: multimedia/libdriv/gst10-plugins-bad.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/gst10-plugins-bad.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/gst10-plugins-bad.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -121,5 +121,4 @@
       <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
       <xref linkend="wayland"/> (<xref linkend="gtk3"/> must have been
       compiled with wayland support),
@@ -168,5 +167,5 @@
       <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-aacenc/">VO AAC</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-amrwbenc/">VO AMRWB</ulink>,
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>,-->
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://www.mindwerks.net/projects/wildmidi/">WildMidi</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://webkit.org/wpe/">WPE-WebKit</ulink>,
Index: multimedia/libdriv/pipewire.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/libdriv/pipewire.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ multimedia/libdriv/pipewire.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -97,5 +97,4 @@
       <xref linkend="sdl2"/> (for some examples),
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
       <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>,
       <xref linkend="doxygen"/> and
@@ -104,6 +103,6 @@
       <ulink url="https://github.com/EHfive/ldacBT">ldacBT</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://libcamera.org/">libcamera</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa">libmysofa</ulink>, and
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>, and-->
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa">libmysofa</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>, and
       <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltoman/">xmltoman</ulink>
     </para>
@@ -185,10 +184,4 @@
       audio conversion as a SPA backend.
     </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <option>-Dvulkan=enabled</option>: This switch enables using Vulkan for
-      video rendering as a SPA backend.
-    </para>
-
   </sect2>
 
Index: multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml
===================================================================
--- multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ multimedia/videoutils/ffmpeg.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -128,5 +128,4 @@
          (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>) for PDF and PS documentation,
       <xref linkend="v4l-utils"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
       <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
       <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
@@ -151,6 +150,6 @@
       <ulink url="https://www.twolame.org/">TwoLAME</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-aacenc/">vo-aaenc</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-amrwbenc/">vo-amrwbenc</ulink>, and
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.org/">Vulkan</ulink>, and-->
+      <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/files/vo-amrwbenc/">vo-amrwbenc</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.org/">Vulkan</ulink>, and
       <ulink url="https://zapping.sourceforge.net/ZVBI/">ZVBI</ulink>
     </para>
@@ -434,9 +433,4 @@
 
     <para>
-      <option>--enable-vulkan</option>: Enables support for using Vulkan for
-      video acceleration.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
       <command>gcc tools/qt-faststart.c -o tools/qt-faststart</command>: This
       builds the <command>qt-faststart</command> program which can modify
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ packages.ent	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -183,6 +183,4 @@
 <!ENTITY spidermonkey-major           "115">
 <!ENTITY spidermonkey-version         "&spidermonkey-major;.5.0">
-<!ENTITY spirv-headers-version        "1.3.268.0">
-<!ENTITY spirv-tools-version          "2023.5.rc1">
 <!ENTITY talloc-version               "2.4.1">
 <!ENTITY telepathy-glib-version       "0.24.2">
@@ -812,5 +810,4 @@
 <!ENTITY gdl-version                  "3.40.0">
 <!ENTITY glew-version                 "2.2.0">
-<!ENTITY glslang-version              "13.1.1">
 <!ENTITY glu-version                  "9.0.3">
 <!ENTITY goffice010-version           "0.10.56">
@@ -853,6 +850,4 @@
 <!ENTITY startup-notification-version "0.12">
 <!ENTITY tepl-version                 "6.8.0">
-<!ENTITY vulkan-headers-version       "1.3.270">
-<!ENTITY vulkan-loader-version        "1.3.270">
 <!ENTITY webkitgtk-version            "2.42.2">    <!-- Even minors only -->
 
Index: x/installing/mesa.xml
===================================================================
--- x/installing/mesa.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/installing/mesa.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -100,6 +100,4 @@
     <para role="recommended">
 
-      <xref linkend="glslang"/> (required for Vulkan support),
-
       <xref role="first" linkend="libva"/> (to provide VA-API support for some
       gallium drivers, note that there is a circular dependency. You must
@@ -112,11 +110,9 @@
       drivers and for swrast, the software rasterizer which is sometimes referred
       to as llvmpipe. See <ulink role="nodep"
-      url="https://docs.mesa3d.org/systems.html"/> for more information),
+      url="https://docs.mesa3d.org/systems.html"/> for more information), and
 
       <xref linkend="wayland-protocols"/> (required for
         <xref role="nodep" linkend='plasma5-build'/>,
-        GNOME, and recommended for <xref role="nodep" linkend='gtk3'/>), and
-
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/> (required for Vulkan support)
+        GNOME, and recommended for <xref role="nodep" linkend='gtk3'/>)
     </para>
 
@@ -133,10 +129,10 @@
       the patch above),
       <ulink url="https://omxil.sourceforge.net/">Bellagio OpenMAX Integration
-      Layer</ulink> (for mobile platforms), and
-      <!--<ulink url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang">glslang</ulink>
-      (for vulkan drivers),-->
+      Layer</ulink> (for mobile platforms),
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang">glslang</ulink>
+      (for vulkan drivers),
       <ulink url="https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il/wiki/Tizonia-OpenMAX-IL/">
-      libtizonia</ulink>,
-      <!-- <ulink url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader">Vulkan-Loader</ulink> -->
+      libtizonia</ulink>,  and
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader">Vulkan-Loader</ulink>
     </para>
 <!--
@@ -294,5 +290,5 @@
       -Dplatforms=x11,wayland \
       -Dgallium-drivers=auto  \
-      -Dvulkan-drivers=auto   \
+      -Dvulkan-drivers=""     \
       -Dvalgrind=disabled     \
       -Dlibunwind=disabled    \
@@ -384,9 +380,11 @@
 
     <para>
-      <parameter>-Dvulkan-drivers=auto</parameter>: This switch enables support
-      for the Vulkan graphics API. It automatically builds all graphics drivers
-      that are available for Vulkan. If you wish to build specific drivers,
-      valid options include 'amd', 'intel', 'intel_hasvk', and 'swrast'. If you
-      do not want Vulkan support, change 'auto' to "".
+      <parameter>-Dvulkan-drivers=""</parameter>: This switch allows choosing
+      which Vulkan drivers are built. The default is auto, but this requires
+      the optional dependencies <application>glslang</application> and
+      <application>Vulkan-Loader</application>.  Vulkan is a newer API
+      designed for utilizing the GPUs with a performance better than OpenGL,
+      but nothing in BLFS benefits from it for now.  So we pass an empty
+      list in order to remove the need for these dependencies.
     </para>
 
@@ -424,7 +422,5 @@
       <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
       <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle><!-- in /usr/lib -->
-      <segtitle>Installed DRI Drivers</segtitle><!-- in /usr/lib/dri -->
-      <segtitle>Installed VDPAU Drivers</segtitle><!-- in /usr/lib/vdpau -->
-      <segtitle>Installed Vulkan Drivers</segtitle><!-- in /usr/lib -->
+      <segtitle>Installed Drivers</segtitle><!-- in /usr/lib/<subdir> -->
       <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
 
@@ -462,9 +458,7 @@
           swrast_dri.so,
           virtio_gpu_dri.so,
-          virtio_gpu_drv_video.so, and
-          vmwgfx_dri.so
+          virtio_gpu_drv_video.so,
+          vmwgfx_dri.so,
           <!-- End DRI Drivers -->
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
           <!-- Begin VDPAU drivers -->
           libvdpau_nouveau.so,
@@ -477,10 +471,4 @@
         </seg>
         <seg>
-          libvulkan_intel_hasvk.so,
-          libvulkan_intel.so,
-          libvulkan_lvp.so, and
-          libvulkan_radeon.so
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
           <!-- $XORG_PREFIX/include/GL is installed by xorg-protos -->
           $XORG_PREFIX/{include/{EGL,GLES,GLES2,GLES3,KHR},
@@ -488,5 +476,4 @@
           $XORG_PREFIX/share/drirc.d (contains workarounds for various applications,
           particularly browsers and games),
-          $XORG_PREFIX/share/vulkan,
           and /usr/share/doc/mesa-&mesa-version;
         </seg>
Index: lib/glslang.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/glslang.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,226 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-
-  <!ENTITY glslang-download-http "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/archive/refs/tags/&glslang-version;/glslang-&glslang-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY glslang-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY glslang-md5sum        "65fc5f9ed3440ff7ccd9760327ba1083">
-  <!ENTITY glslang-size          "3.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY glslang-buildsize     "161 MB">
-  <!ENTITY glslang-time          "0.4 SBU (with parallelism=8)">
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="glslang" xreflabel="Glslang-&glslang-version;">
-  <?dbhtml filename="glslang.html"?>
-
-  <title>Glslang-&glslang-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="glslang">
-    <primary sortas="a-glslang">Glslang</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title>Introduction to Glslang</title>
-
-    <para>
-      The <application>Glslang</application> package contains an frontend and
-      validator for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan shaders.
-    </para>
-
-    &lfs120_checked;
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glslang-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glslang-download-ftp;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download MD5 sum: &glslang-md5sum;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download size: &glslang-size;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated disk space required: &glslang-buildsize;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated build time: &glslang-time;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Glslang Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="cmake"/> and
-      <xref linkend="spirv-tools"/>
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of Glslang</title>
-
-    <para>
-      Install <application>Glslang</application> by running the following
-      commands:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd    build &amp;&amp;
-
-cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr     \
-      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release      \
-      -DALLOW_EXTERNAL_SPIRV_TOOLS=ON \
-      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON          \
-      -G Ninja .. &amp;&amp;
-ninja</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Now, as the &root; user:
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="commands">
-    <title>Command Explanations</title>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DALLOW_EXTERNAL_SPIRV_TOOLS=ON</parameter>: This switch allows
-      the build system to use the system-installed copy of
-      <xref linkend="spirv-tools" role="nodep"/>, instead of downloading and
-      installing it's own copy.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <parameter>-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON</parameter>: This switch builds shared
-      versions of the libaries, and does not install static versions of them.
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="content">
-    <title>Contents</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-          glslang,
-          glslang-validator (symlink to glslang), and
-          spirv-remap
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          libglslang.so,
-          libglslang-default-resource-limits.so,
-          libHLSL.so,
-          libSPIRV.so, and
-          libSPVRemapper.so
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          /usr/include/glslang and
-          /usr/lib/cmake/glslang
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-      <!-- If the program or library name conflicts with (is the same as) the
-      package name, add -prog or -lib to the varlistentry entity id
-      and the 2nd entry of the indexterm zone entity -->
-
-      <varlistentry id="glslang-prog">
-        <term><command>glslang</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            provides a front end and validator for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and
-            Vulkan shaders
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="glslang glslang-prog">
-            <primary sortas="b-glslang">glslang</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libglslang">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libglslang.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            contains functions that provide a front-end and validator for
-            OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan shaders to other programs
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="glslang libglslang">
-            <primary sortas="c-libglslang">libglslang.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libHLSL">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libHLSL.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            provides a front-end for shaders that are in HLSL format
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="glslang libHLSL">
-            <primary sortas="c-libHLSL">libHLSL.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libSPIRV">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSPIRV.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            provides a front-end and generator for SPIR-V binaries
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="glslang libSPIRV">
-            <primary sortas="c-libSPIRV">libSPIRV.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libSPVRemapper">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSPVRemapper.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            prodives a remapper for SPIR-V binaries
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="glslang libSPVRemapper">
-            <primary sortas="c-libSPVRemapper">libSPVRemapper.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-    </variablelist>
-  </sect2>
-</sect1>
Index: x/lib/gtk4.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/gtk4.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/lib/gtk4.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@
       <xref linkend="sassc"/>,
       <xref linkend="tracker3"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
-      <ulink url="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cpdb-libs">cpdb</ulink>, and
-      <ulink url="&sysprof-url;">sysprof</ulink>
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home">vulkan</ulink>-->
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cpdb-libs">cpdb</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="&sysprof-url;">sysprof</ulink>, and
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home">vulkan</ulink>
     </para>
 
@@ -228,12 +227,4 @@
       <ulink url="&sysprof-url;">sysprof</ulink> installed and wish to enable 
       tracing support for GTK4-based applications.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      <option>-Dvulkan=enabled</option>: Use this switch if you have
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/> installed and wish to build the
-      experimental Vulkan backend. Note that you must have
-      <ulink url="https://github.com/google/shaderc/blob/main/downloads.md">glslc</ulink>
-      installed if you decide to enable this option.
     </para>
 
Index: x/lib/gtksourceview5.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/gtksourceview5.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/lib/gtksourceview5.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@
       <xref linkend="vala"/>,
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
-      <ulink url="&sysprof-url;">sysprof</ulink>
-      <!--<ulink url="https://www.vulkan.org/">Vulkan</ulink>-->
+      <ulink url="&sysprof-url;">sysprof</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="https://www.vulkan.org/">Vulkan</ulink>
     </para>
 
Index: x/lib/lib.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/lib.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/lib/lib.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -39,5 +39,4 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="gdk-pixbuf.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="glew.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="glslang.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="glu.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="goffice010.xml"/>
@@ -86,6 +85,4 @@
 
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="tepl.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="vulkan-headers.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="vulkan-loader.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="webkitgtk.xml"/>
 
Index: x/lib/qt5.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/qt5.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/lib/qt5.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -151,5 +151,4 @@
       <xref linkend="sdl2"/>,
       <xref linkend="unixodbc"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-loader"/>,
       <ulink url="https://www.assimp.org/">assimp</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://github.com/festvox/flite">Flite</ulink>,
@@ -158,7 +157,7 @@
       <ulink url="https://libproxy.github.io/libproxy/">libproxy</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://openal.org/">OpenAL</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="https://freebsoft.org/speechd/">speech-dispatcher</ulink>, and
-      <ulink url="http:///www.tslib.org/">tslib</ulink>
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>-->
+      <ulink url="https://freebsoft.org/speechd/">speech-dispatcher</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="http:///www.tslib.org/">tslib</ulink>, and
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>
     </para>
 
@@ -658,9 +657,8 @@
           libQt5Svg.so, libQt5Test.so, libQt5TextToSpeech.so,
           libQt5ThemeSupport.a, libQt5UiTools.a, libQt5VirtualKeyboard.so,
-          libQt5VulkanSupport.a, libQt5WaylandClient.so,
-          libQt5WaylandCompositor.so, libQt5WebChannel.so, libQt5WebSockets.so,
-          libQt5WebView.so, libQt5Widgets.so, libQt5X11Extras.so,
-          libQt5XcbQpa.so, libQt5XkbCommonSupport.a, libQt5Xml.so,
-          libQt5XmlPatterns.so,
+          libQt5WaylandClient.so, libQt5WaylandCompositor.so,
+          libQt5WebChannel.so, libQt5WebSockets.so, libQt5WebView.so,
+          libQt5Widgets.so, libQt5X11Extras.so, libQt5XcbQpa.so,
+          libQt5XkbCommonSupport.a, libQt5Xml.so, libQt5XmlPatterns.so,
           and several plugins under /opt/qt5/{plugins,qml}
         </seg>
Index: x/lib/qt6.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/qt6.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ x/lib/qt6.xml	(revision f6b87643496b0100d834a8c2c11a01c917b8b9db)
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
       <ulink url="https://libproxy.github.io/libproxy/">libproxy</ulink>,
       <ulink url="https://openal.org/">OpenAL</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="https://freebsoft.org/speechd/">speech-dispatcher</ulink>, and
-      <ulink url="http:///www.tslib.org/">tslib</ulink>
-      <!--<ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>-->
+      <ulink url="https://freebsoft.org/speechd/">speech-dispatcher</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="http:///www.tslib.org/">tslib</ulink>, and
+      <ulink url="https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home/">Vulkan</ulink>
     </para>
 
Index: lib/vulkan-headers.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/vulkan-headers.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,128 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-download-http "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers/archive/refs/tags/v&vulkan-headers-version;/Vulkan-Headers-&vulkan-headers-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-md5sum        "805bde4c23197b86334cee5c2cf69d8e">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-size          "2.1 MB">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-buildsize     "25 MB">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-headers-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="vulkan-headers" xreflabel="Vulkan-headers-&vulkan-headers-version;">
-  <?dbhtml filename="vulkan-headers.html"?>
-
-  <title>Vulkan-headers-&vulkan-headers-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="vulkan-headers">
-    <primary sortas="a-vulkan-headers">Vulkan-headers</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title>Introduction to Vulkan-headers</title>
-
-    <para>
-      The <application>Vulkan-headers</application> package contains a set of
-      header files necessary to build and link applications against the Vulkan
-      API.
-    </para>
-
-    &lfs120_checked;
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vulkan-headers-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vulkan-headers-download-ftp;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download MD5 sum: &vulkan-headers-md5sum;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download size: &vulkan-headers-size;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated disk space required: &vulkan-headers-buildsize;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated build time: &vulkan-headers-time;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Vulkan-headers Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="cmake"/>
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of Vulkan-headers</title>
-
-    <para>
-      Install <application>Vulkan-headers</application> by running the following
-      commands:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd    build &amp;&amp;
-
-cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -G Ninja .. &amp;&amp;
-ninja</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      This package does not come with a test suite.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="content">
-    <title>Contents</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-          None
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          None
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          /usr/include/vk_video,
-          /usr/include/vulkan,
-          /usr/share/cmake/VulkanHeaders, and
-          /usr/share/vulkan
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-  </sect2>
-</sect1>
Index: lib/vulkan-loader.xml
===================================================================
--- x/lib/vulkan-loader.xml	(revision 882979cd7c407b4d5d3a7de327c9fa46d86dab55)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,160 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-download-http "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Loader/archive/refs/tags/v&vulkan-loader-version;/Vulkan-Loader-&vulkan-loader-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-md5sum        "6903f9d285afcd1a167ec7c46cbabd49">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-size          "1.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-buildsize     "9.8 MB">
-  <!ENTITY vulkan-loader-time          "0.1 SBU">
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="vulkan-loader" xreflabel="Vulkan-loader-&vulkan-loader-version;">
-  <?dbhtml filename="vulkan-loader.html"?>
-
-  <title>Vulkan-loader-&vulkan-loader-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="vulkan-loader">
-    <primary sortas="a-vulkan-loader">Vulkan-loader</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title>Introduction to Vulkan-loader</title>
-
-    <para>
-      The <application>Vulkan-loader</application> package contains a library
-      which provides the Vulkan API and provides core support for graphics
-      drivers for Vulkan.
-    </para>
-
-    &lfs120_checked;
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&vulkan-loader-download-http;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&vulkan-loader-download-ftp;"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download MD5 sum: &vulkan-loader-md5sum;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Download size: &vulkan-loader-size;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated disk space required: &vulkan-loader-buildsize;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Estimated build time: &vulkan-loader-time;
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Vulkan-loader Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required">
-      <xref linkend="cmake"/>,
-      <xref linkend="lxml"/>,
-      <xref linkend="vulkan-headers"/>,
-      <xref linkend="wayland"/>, and
-      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
-    </para>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of Vulkan-loader</title>
-
-    <note>
-      <para>
-        If this package is being installed on a system where Mesa has already
-        been installed previously, please rebuild <xref linkend="mesa"/> after
-        this package to install Vulkan graphics drivers.
-      </para>
-    </note>
-
-    <para>
-      Install <application>Vulkan-loader</application> by running the following
-      commands:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
-cd    build &amp;&amp;
-
-cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr       \
-      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release        \
-      -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=TRUE           \
-      -G Ninja .. &amp;&amp;
-ninja</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
-      This package does not come with a working test suite.
-      <!-- To run the tests, we need to follow a complex process to download a
-      customized copy of googletest.-->
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-    </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="content">
-    <title>Contents</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-          None
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          libvulkan.so
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-          /usr/lib/cmake/VulkanLoader
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libvulkan">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libvulkan.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>
-            provides the Vulkan API and core support for graphics drivers
-          </para>
-          <indexterm zone="vulkan-loader libvulkan">
-            <primary sortas="c-libvulkan">libvulkan.so</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
-  </sect2>
-</sect1>
