Re: r18868 - in trunk/packages/ddetect: . debian
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:51:55PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > mdetect seems like clearly the right place. Its package description and
> > > its man page both suggest that gpm could easily be modified to use it
> > > (indeed, mdetect's default behaviour is to produce output suitable for
> > > configuring gpm).
> >
> > And is it part of base, and sure to be run if the user does a clean install
> > and chose the X task in tasksel ?
>
> Yes, base-config installs mdetect and xserver-xfree86.config uses it
> (although you may have to request that it be used, I don't remember; in
> any case we'd be in the same position as other architectures here).
Ok, i will look at it then.
BTW, Hopefully Branden will be more responsive in updating the package than
the discover folk.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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