[PATCH util/macros] Add sed pattern for __xorgconfd__ (xorg.conf.d).

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Fri Mar 18 07:58:08 PDT 2011


On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:32 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> 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 peter.hutterer at who-t.net 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 ;)
> 

	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.



> Cheers,
>   Peter
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