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Bug#363229: xserver-xorg: No way to set the XKB data directory



On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:35:37PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:40:31AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 05:02:12AM +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
> > > Then I tried the other method referred to in xkb-data's README.Debian,
> > > that of passing a -xkbdir to the server. The server did not recognize
> > > this flag (and gave me a list of the flags it did recognize...).
> > 
> > I removed most of the XKB command-line options upstream.
> 
> As users can inject any random data with xkbcomp, is it really safer?
> IMHO this is just annoying without any security improvement.

It's not for security reasons, it's because I don't believe it has any
place on the command line.  Config file, maybe, but why command line?

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