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

[Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)]

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.

 
> 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.


Cheers,

            Tiago