[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.0

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 14:29:24 PDT 2010


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr  2, 2010 at 14:10:47 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:20:26PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:01:30 +0200, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > And I'll be using /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ because using /etc for the
>> > > default "make my xserver work" snippets just seems wrong (and /usr
>> > > allows me to make sure they're in sync with the packages, not conflated
>> > > with configuration which is the admin's domain).
>> >
>> > Yeah, that's why I picked the 'secondary' path supported by the server
>> > so that a directory in /etc/X11 would completely override these files.
>> >
>> > Sounds like we need to fix the server config file search path to look in
>> > a sensible place rather than $(prefix)/etc/X11
>>
>> This is untested, but I think the patch below is all it would take to
>> add support for a second "system" directory in $prefix/lib/X11 with
>> lowest priority.
>>
> This is already in {USER,ROOT}_CONFIGDIRPATH, shouldn't it be removed
> from there if we add a new search path?

Yeah, probably. It was more of a proof of concept patch. Now would be
the best time to look at those standard search paths and make them
sane. There's no real reason to repeat the nonsense in the xorg.conf
searching.

--
Dan



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