Disable xterm and XRX builds per default / [Fwd: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)]

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Mon Jan 24 09:44:57 PST 2005


Daniel Stone writes:
 > > Other distributors either add their custom configuration to linux.cf
 > > or supply it their custom configuration in a host.def file.
 > 
 > FWIW, I do the former.
 > 
 > > I personally would prefer to have a per-distributor configuration 
 > > file which can easily be included when a certain distro is detected.
 > 
 > Sure, we have sections for this in linux.cf today.  But I think the entire
 > concept of having this in the upstream tree is a bad one; much as I have avoided
 > merging the debian/ tree for D-BUS upstream, likewise would I rather see all
 > distro-specific configuration out of the upstream X.Org tree, since it doesn't
 > belong there IMO.  Ho hum.

Yes, I fully argee with you here. That would be even better.
However since the monolithic tree is approaching it's end of life
it may not be worthwhile obtaining consensus on these changes 
- unless each distro maintainer would delete the stuff for his
product.

Cheers,
	Egbert.



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