On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:44:12AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:27:31AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > > >>>>> In <[🔎] 20030612222214.GB542@aragorn> > > >>>>> Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote: > > > > >> btw, if someone is going to fix gnu.cf, please consider splitting it > > >> into a gnu-common.cf file so that it can be shared with gnu-freebsd.cf > > >> (see the header comments in patch #820) > > > > I just wrote same idea into my TODO list > > (xfree86/people/ishikaawa/TODO). > > > > I'm planning to work for this hack on this weekend :-) > > glad to hear that! > > after looking at your TODO, i have a pair of comments on your plan: > > - i think site.def is a more adequate place for debian-specific stuff > see what the upstream docs say about site.def (INSTALL-X.org, section 3.5) > - you're moving stuff into debian.cf that isn't actualy debian-specific. > when i said "gnu-common.cf" i meant stuff common to GNUish systems > (mostly related to Glibc and userland), but not debian-specific. [1] > > I think we should take care to do these modifications in a way that they are > acceptable for upstream. So if you split into gnu-common.cf the common > stuff that isn't debian-specific, and into debian.cf (or site.def) the > debian-specific stuff, we'd just have to send gnu-common.cf to upstream > and maintain debian.cf/site.def in debian. > > [1] as of now GNU/Hurd and GNU/*BSD only exist in Debian, but we can't > assume that for a configuration file. And the NetBSD one is *not* GNU-based, which is even more reason to split the Debian-specific bits into a different file from the GNU-specific bits. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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