On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwn...@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.
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