[RFC][PATCH 0/6] towards the dietary: removing libpciaccess dependency from Xorg

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 21:43:10 +0300, Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:23:38PM +0200, ext Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > > A lot of documentation and people start with "Run Xorg -configure to generate
> > > a dummy config file when you need to manually edit one"
> 
> IMHO this argument doesn't justifies to let the dumb generator of xorg.conf,
> i.e, the -configure option. 
> 
> Users ("people") don't need know how to configure or even know about the
> existence of the xorg.conf. The distribution or some fancy GUI application
> must to do it for them.
> 
Some fancy gui application such as?  It's nice to remove code, but Xorg
-configure is being used today (in part because in the real world at
least some users do need to know about xorg.conf), so if there's no
replacement this isn't really a win.

>  
> > And even if none of Tiago's patches land as-is, it would be very nice to
> > just have -configure dump the same stub config file that gets logged into
> > Xorg.0.log already as the autogenerated stub instead of having a second
> > code path that generates something different, including sometimes picking
> > different drivers, so that Xorg -configure really does give you the same
> > starting point as Xorg with no xorg.conf.
> 
> It is _not_ the X server's role to dump this. Period.

Yet it was doing that so far.  You can say period all you want, we'll
still need *something* to do that job.

Cheers,
Julien