On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:29:24 -0700 Dan Nicholson <dbn.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 14:10:47 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:20:26PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:01:30 +0200, Julien Cristau > >> > <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > > >> > > And I'll be using /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ because using /etc > >> > > for the default "make my xserver work" snippets just seems > >> > > wrong (and /usr allows me to make sure they're in sync with > >> > > the packages, not conflated with configuration which is the > >> > > admin's domain). > >> > > >> > Yeah, that's why I picked the 'secondary' path supported by the > >> > server so that a directory in /etc/X11 would completely override > >> > these files. > >> > > >> > Sounds like we need to fix the server config file search path to > >> > look in a sensible place rather than $(prefix)/etc/X11 > >> > >> This is untested, but I think the patch below is all it would take > >> to add support for a second "system" directory in $prefix/lib/X11 > >> with lowest priority. > >> > > This is already in {USER,ROOT}_CONFIGDIRPATH, shouldn't it be > > removed from there if we add a new search path? > > Yeah, probably. It was more of a proof of concept patch. Now would be > the best time to look at those standard search paths and make them > sane. There's no real reason to repeat the nonsense in the xorg.conf > searching. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's wrong with using e.g. $prefix/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for distro packages and $sysconfdir/X11/xorg.conf.d/ for local sysadmin? -RW _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg