<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:32 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:17:03AM +0100, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > > Twas brillig at 10:53:54 18.03.2011 UTC+10 when <A HREF="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</A> did gyre and gimble: > > >> The Xorg & xorg.conf substitutions are leftover from the > >> transitional period where some distros were building our sources > >> with the XFree86 and XF86config names until they had time to adjust > >> the rest of their packages/installer/config code to the new names. > > PH> probably not, I'm fine either way but right now the man pages have > PH> text like "blah blah __xconfigfile__ or xorg.conf.d" which is a bit > PH> asymmetrical. > > So why not fix it to by symmetrical in other way 'round, by substituting > __xconfigfile__ back? because there's a lot more uses of __xconfigfile__ and I'd have to replace all of them ;) </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> XF86CONFIGFILE="xorg.conf" There are 166 instances in 56 files. Not an unreasonable task. We won't be able to take out __xconfigfile__ but we can add a comment not to use it. I'll add as a TODO. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A>: X.Org development Archives: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</A> Info: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>