On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Kristian Høgsberg <k...@bitplanet.net> wrote: > 2010/8/24 Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca>: >> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 12:56 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> >> Could just use dri.pc for the default value of the option, rather than >> removing it altogether? >> >> Yes. I think the author of the bug report wishes to also remove the option >> as it is no longer useful. >> >> This is an opportunity for me to get the real story being this type of >> option. There are many in the server but also in other modules. It looks to >> me that in the past there were no pkg-config infrastructure (or it was not >> used or not mature) so there had to be an option for every directory a >> module needed to know. >> >> Once a directory is published through pkg-config, there is no longer a need >> to ask the user for its value. I suspect it is even wrong to allow the user >> to specify one as there cannot be 2 directories for the same stuff. > > I added the option in c3342c8000f6d2bfb61e2cf95e028d11b59698fa in > 2004. At the time we didn't have dri.pc. I don't see a reason to > keep it now.
To me, the only reason is that since you can't override the path at runtime either, there's no way to set a custom path to the modules. Maybe that's more of a runtime concern, though. Reviewed-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.li...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel