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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about |
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[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?: |
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>On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Whether Xorg uses HAL or not is controlled by a USE flag isn't it? |
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>>> So upstream choses the defaults for USE flags? |
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>> No, upstream chooses the default config out of the box. |
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>> Gentoo does what Gentoo has to do to replicate that config. |
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>OK. (To me that means that upstream does choose the defaults for USE |
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>flags, but that may just be semantics). |
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No, the USE flags are purely a Portage thing. The USE flags determine |
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which options are enabled/disabled when the ebuild runs the equivalent |
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of a ./configure script. The defaults for the USE flags are part of |
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the ebuild, completely separate from upstream. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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