From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PIpPY-0005Ag-M6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:19:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5F31E079D; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940E8E079D for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B866B1B42A0 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.49 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.49 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.109, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fwdOf9ic1g1W for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F0771B415D for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIpOi-000611-I4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:18:32 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:18:32 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:18:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20101117164830.0f196f85@karnak.local> <20101117192256.38fc08d0@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: ce70ea6c-c05b-4a44-aa3d-2fce7e23c1bf X-Archives-Hash: aa0a4c2d2b936feed5510925e55221b1 On 2010-11-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:48:30 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >> >Surely what `./configure` does if I don't make any choice about its >> >compilation option is to be considered a "default"? >> >> Gentoo ebuilds do not run ./configure without options, unless there are >> no options available. That's irrelevent. You said upstream doesn't come with a "default" configuration. We're saying it does, and that it's defined by the default options in the configure script. Even if Gentoo doesn't use that default configuration it doens't meant that it doesn't exist. > No, but they generally set the USE defaults to give the same settings > as running ./configure with none. In other words, they are following > the upstream defaults. We seem to be going around in circles. :) The merits of using HAL for Xorg config aside, I am still curious about where the "default" configuration for a package comes from. Is there a written policy somewhere that tells devs how to set the default USE flags? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having a MID-WEEK at CRISIS! gmail.com