On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:40:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?:
>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 defaults for all ebuilds are set by the Gentoo developer who writes the ebuild. We cannot blame the *default* nature of HAL in X.Org on the upstream developers; we can blame them for using HAL in the first place -- if blame must be ascribed. >> 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. The only time a ./configure script runs without options inside a Gentoo ebuild is when there are no options available. An ebuild typically specifies all available options as enabled/disabled or some value. Indeed, if you think about coding an ebuild where one ignores *any* of the available options, one is asking for trouble in the future if upstream changes the configuration script. That's simply not the right way to code an ebuild. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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