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

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Monday 15 November 2010, Grant 
Edwards did opine thusly:

> On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:31 on Monday 15 November 2010, Grant
> >
> > Edwards did opine thusly:
> >> On 2010-11-14, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> > Finally, if xorg-server-1.8 is around the corner to be stabilised I
> >> > suggest that you unmask it and use the xorg.conf file that we all
> >> > know and love.  :-)
> >>
> >> Using xorg.conf with 1.7 is simple enough (it's what I do on all my
> >> other machines).  That's why I don't understand why the Gentoo
> >> developers decided to use HAL by default when it seems to be widely
> >> acknowledged to be such a disaster.
> >
> > The Gentoo devs made no such decision.
> >
> > Upstream did.
> >
> > Gentoo closely tracks upstream, unless upstream is completely broken.
> > HAL might be a crock of chit, but it does not render X broken and not
> > usable.
>
> 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.
Gentoo needs a very good reason to change upstream default behaviour, along 
the lines of extreme brokenness.

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