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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
>> 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.

Why not?  Who knows better than the X server what it's default configuration
is?   Why would you put that in another program that can get out of sync with
the X server and require twice the work every time you update the X server
defaults?

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering