On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/26/12 04:13 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >> These need to die. This removes 30K lines of code from xorg-server. It >> must be good! >> >> Most functionality of these servers can be provide by Xorg with either the >> nested or dummy video driver. If someone really misses functionality, we >> should fix that deficiency in hw/xfree86, xf86-video-dummy, or >> xf86-video-nested. Also, there's nothing stopping anyone from using older >> server versions if they still need these DDXs. > > The giant blocker from my point of view is that by just deleting them, you've > made it impossible for non-root users to run them, since Xorg only reads > config > files from system directories when run as a root user.
I'm glad to hear you have no objections: this is all fixed in 1.12. See ead968a4300c0adeff89b9886e888b6d284c75cc Jamey _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
