Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Monday 15 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly:
> On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:31 on Monday 15 November 2010, Grant > > > > Edwards did opine thusly: > >> On 2010-11-14, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Finally, if xorg-server-1.8 is around the corner to be stabilised I > >> > suggest that you unmask it and use the xorg.conf file that we all > >> > know and love. :-) > >> > >> Using xorg.conf with 1.7 is simple enough (it's what I do on all my > >> other machines). That's why I don't understand why the Gentoo > >> developers decided to use HAL by default when it seems to be widely > >> acknowledged to be such a disaster. > > > > The Gentoo devs made no such decision. > > > > Upstream did. > > > > Gentoo closely tracks upstream, unless upstream is completely broken. > > HAL might be a crock of chit, but it does not render X broken and not > > usable. > > 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. Gentoo does what Gentoo has to do to replicate that config. Gentoo needs a very good reason to change upstream default behaviour, along the lines of extreme brokenness. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
