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.mckin...@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. >> >> 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. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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