On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:32 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:17:03AM +0100, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > > > > Twas brillig at 10:53:54 18.03.2011 UTC+10 when peter.hutte...@who-t.net > > did gyre and gimble: > > > > >> The Xorg & xorg.conf substitutions are leftover from the > > >> transitional period where some distros were building our sources > > >> with the XFree86 and XF86config names until they had time to adjust > > >> the rest of their packages/installer/config code to the new names. > > > > PH> probably not, I'm fine either way but right now the man pages have > > PH> text like "blah blah __xconfigfile__ or xorg.conf.d" which is a bit > > PH> asymmetrical. > > > > So why not fix it to by symmetrical in other way 'round, by substituting > > __xconfigfile__ back? > > because there's a lot more uses of __xconfigfile__ and I'd have to replace > all of them ;) >
XF86CONFIGFILE="xorg.conf"
There are 166 instances in 56 files. Not an unreasonable task.
We won't be able to take out __xconfigfile__ but we can add a comment
not to use it.
I'll add as a TODO.
> Cheers,
> Peter
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