[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.0

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Fri Apr 2 14:25:44 PDT 2010


On Fri, Apr  2, 2010 at 14:10:47 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:20:26PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:01:30 +0200, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > And I'll be using /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ because using /etc for the
> > > default "make my xserver work" snippets just seems wrong (and /usr
> > > allows me to make sure they're in sync with the packages, not conflated
> > > with configuration which is the admin's domain).
> > 
> > Yeah, that's why I picked the 'secondary' path supported by the server
> > so that a directory in /etc/X11 would completely override these files.
> > 
> > Sounds like we need to fix the server config file search path to look in
> > a sensible place rather than $(prefix)/etc/X11
> 
> This is untested, but I think the patch below is all it would take to
> add support for a second "system" directory in $prefix/lib/X11 with
> lowest priority.
> 
This is already in {USER,ROOT}_CONFIGDIRPATH, shouldn't it be removed
from there if we add a new search path?

Cheers,
Julien



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