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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-11-16, David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.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 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.

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