[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.0

[Robby Workman]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:29:24 -0700
Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yeah, probably. It was more of a proof of concept patch. Now would be
> the best time to look at those standard search paths and make them
> sane. There's no real reason to repeat the nonsense in the xorg.conf
> searching.


Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's wrong with using
e.g. $prefix/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for distro packages and 
$sysconfdir/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for local sysadmin?

-RW