Bug#323270: dexconf: Please add support for reconfiguring X at boot time

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:30:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Matt Zimmerman]
> > They are all doing different things.  The only common part is
> > calling dpkg-reconfigure, and I don't mind one line of duplicate
> > code in favor of adding a new init script to another package.
> 
> Well, as I see it, they all do the same thing, but in a different way.
> All of them try to configure X automatically at boot time, the as good
> as they are able to.

I can't speak for the others, but the only thing that LTSP does apart from
dpkg-reconfigure is to allow its configuration file to override some
autodetected values.  That isn't code which can be shared.  "try to
configure X automatically at boot time" comes down to dpkg-reconfigure.

> My proposal is to get them to do it the same way, making sure the
> automatic configuration at boot time get as good as possible by making
> sure everyone with this need contribute to a common code base.

The automatic configuration code is already centralized in xserver-xorg.

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 - mdz