Bug#346149: Add low-priority question to avoid generating xorg.conf, for preseeding

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:34:17 -0700, vagrant@freegeek.org wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:50:50PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > It would be nice if there was a low-priority question "Generate X server
> >  configuration with debconf?", defaulting to "yes", and generating no
> > xorg.conf at all if "no".  This would allow preseeders to use "no" and
> > rely on the X server's automatic detection and configuration logic.
> > 
> > (Eventually the X server's automatic detection and configuration logic
> > may well be good enough that it could replace the need to generate a
> > configuration file, but it isn't there yet.)
> 
> Xorg's automatic configuration without an xorg.conf is maybe good enough
> now (using xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10) to consider making this a normal or
> high priority question, and possibly even the default behavior.
> 
No, it's not.  If we don't generate an xorg.conf, you get a keyboard
with us layout.  We need to fix at least that before we can consider
dropping the xorg.conf creation.

Cheers,
Julien