On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:06:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > This is the ugliest specal case in base-config for any package, and I would > love to remove it. if you are redesigning the X config tool, please consider > putting it in a package that depends on read-edid and mdetect, and deferring > the configuration to the postinst. Preconfiguration is not worth the pain. > > I would also hope to see an X config that did more autoconfiguration, > perhaps by using X --config, if that actually mostly works in newer versions > of X. It does, but it's under the X-Oz license, and last I looked, we weren't even 100% sure that was DFSG-compliant. But yes, in general, X should be able to work without a config file. If you want to tune stuff (and most people will), have a config file, but it should be able to function without one. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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