[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.0

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:29 PM, 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.

I posted a patch series which addresses most of these shortcomings, I
think. See <1270312431-11197-1-git-send-email-dbn.lists at gmail.com>.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-April/006846.html

Let me know what you think.

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Dan