[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about
> [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?:
>
>>On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whether Xorg uses HAL or not is controlled by a USE flag isn't it?
>>>> So upstream choses the defaults for USE flags?
>>>
>>> No, upstream chooses the default config out of the box.
>>>
>>> Gentoo does what Gentoo has to do to replicate that config.
>>
>>OK. (To me that means that upstream does choose the defaults for USE
>>flags, but that may just be semantics).
>
> No, the USE flags are purely a Portage thing.  The USE flags
> determine which options are enabled/disabled when the ebuild runs the
> equivalent of a ./configure script.  The defaults for the USE flags
> are part of the ebuild, completely separate from upstream.

But if the developers are required to duplicate the upstream
"out-of-box" configuration, then the defaults for the USE flags are
determined by upstream decisions, not by the developers.

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