On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:30:53AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:59:23PM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > > +* Burn xserver debconfage to the ground, redesign and reimplement, taking into > > + account the many lessons of the past 5 years (and hopefully leveraging the new > > + "autoconfiguration" code in the XOrg X server). > > My goal is to push as much of this stuff in to the server as possible, > leaving as little for our scripts to do as we can. I know it'll be possible > to do things like heuristics for monitor resolutions in the server, the > code just needs to be written. During this process, if pieces of the old > debconfage can simply be removed as they become unnecessary. > > Once we have a functional and up to date X.org in Debian I'm going to begin > work on this. If we want to re-write the current debconf stuff during this > process, that's definitely feasible too. So, the autoconfig in X.Org is, uhm, interesting. The best results I've seen from any system have been from my meticulously hand-tweaked Debconf scripts, based from xserver-xfree86's Debconf stuff. The major difference with mine, apart from using xresprobe and the like, is that a lot of the md5sum insanity has gone. Long-term, it absolutely needs to go. Short-term, it should not be a priority over, say, actually getting xorg into the archive this century.
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