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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:26:02 +0000
From: David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about
[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?:

>On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Whether Xorg uses HAL or not is controlled by a USE flag isn't it?
>>> So upstream choses the defaults for USE flags?
>>
>> No, upstream chooses the default config out of the box.=20
>>
>> Gentoo does what Gentoo has to do to replicate that config.
>
>OK. (To me that means that upstream does choose the defaults for USE
>flags, but that may just be semantics).

No, the USE flags are purely a Portage thing.  The USE flags determine
which options are enabled/disabled when the ebuild runs the equivalent
of a ./configure script.  The defaults for the USE flags are part of
the ebuild, completely separate from upstream.
--=20
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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