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Re: Bug#412069: patch for beryl support



On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:45 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> 
> > That sounds more like an upstream solution.  IMHO, in Debian we should do it
> > in the conffile because:
> >
> >  - It's more transparent.  User can tell this is enabled without going through
> >    the patchset.
> >
> >  - It's easier to disable if it turns out to be a problem (performance?).

I agree.

> See the patch below.
> 
> Messing with xorg.conf is nasty, please do it like Ubuntu (and Fedora) has 
> done since August and enable it in the server code.

As Robert said, this really needs to be done upstream. It's getting
tiresome that some distros ship patches such as this without pushing
them upstream.


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