From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:29:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ic0sc0$5kk$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20101116222819.6ab37a91@karnak.local
On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Again, the defaults are chosen for stability with Gentoo first;
> secondly, there are no fixed defaults -- or "out-of-box" configuration
> -- from upstream,
If that's true, then it is the developers rather than "upstream" that
decided to use HAL for Xorg configuration.
You can't have it both ways:
1) There is no default configuration from upstream.
2) The default configuration (use HAL) came from upstream.
> The only distributions that have fixed configurations are the binary
> ones. Any package that is built from source -- and under Gentoo that
> means almost everything -- is intrinsically configurable by the
> person building the binaries. To extend your "out-of-box" analogy:
> source code doesn't arrive in a box, but binaries (.rpm, .deb, etc.)
> do.
It seems to me that the "configure" script with no command-line
options to enable/disable features is a "box" that contains the
default configuration.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm not an Iranian!!
at I voted for Dianne
gmail.com Feinstein!!
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2010-11-16 22:28 ` [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? David W Noon
2010-11-17 0:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-17 3:14 ` Dale
2010-11-18 0:43 ` Walter Dnes
2010-11-18 0:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 1:46 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-18 3:47 ` Stroller
2010-11-18 3:59 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-18 4:17 ` Dale
2010-11-18 4:56 ` Stroller
2010-11-18 12:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 9:31 ` Sebastian Beßler
2010-11-18 12:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 14:12 ` Sebastian Beßler
2010-11-18 14:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 14:24 ` Sebastian Beßler
2010-11-18 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 2:17 ` Walter Dnes
2010-11-19 3:14 ` Walter Dnes
2010-11-19 9:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 10:02 ` Dale
2010-11-18 4:52 ` Stroller
2010-11-19 3:55 ` Walter Dnes
2010-11-17 13:52 ` Stroller
2010-11-17 15:29 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
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2010-11-17 16:47 ` David W Noon
[not found] ` <fPQIh-13B-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-11-17 16:48 ` David W Noon
2010-11-17 19:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-17 21:18 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-17 22:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 11:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-18 11:43 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-11-18 11:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-18 12:32 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-11-18 13:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-18 13:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 13:33 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-11-18 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 11:11 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-11-18 12:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-18 12:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-11-19 11:07 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-11-19 13:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-19 15:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-11-19 15:38 ` Alan McKinnon
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2010-11-16 16:26 ` David W Noon
2010-11-16 18:11 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-14 1:10 [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-11-14 2:37 ` Dale
2010-11-14 9:46 ` Mick
2010-11-14 15:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-11-14 16:15 ` Onteria
2010-11-14 17:02 ` Mick
2010-11-15 15:31 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-15 17:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-15 20:51 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-15 22:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-16 5:25 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-15 22:56 ` Dale
2010-11-15 23:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-11-16 0:26 ` Dale
2010-11-18 11:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Fernando Antunes
2010-11-18 15:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-11-18 22:24 ` Mick
2010-11-19 4:55 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-19 11:41 ` Mick
2010-12-12 1:52 ` Grant Edwards
2010-12-12 5:57 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-12-12 10:59 ` Mick
2010-12-12 17:10 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-12-13 0:17 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-12-13 5:04 ` Valmor de Almeida
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