On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:27:31AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > >>>>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> btw, if someone is going to fix gnu.cf, please consider splitting it > >> into a gnu-common.cf file so that it can be shared with gnu-freebsd.cf > >> (see the header comments in patch #820) > > I just wrote same idea into my TODO list > (xfree86/people/ishikaawa/TODO). > > I'm planning to work for this hack on this weekend :-)
glad to hear that! after looking at your TODO, i have a pair of comments on your plan: - i think site.def is a more adequate place for debian-specific stuff see what the upstream docs say about site.def (INSTALL-X.org, section 3.5) - you're moving stuff into debian.cf that isn't actualy debian-specific. when i said "gnu-common.cf" i meant stuff common to GNUish systems (mostly related to Glibc and userland), but not debian-specific. [1] I think we should take care to do these modifications in a way that they are acceptable for upstream. So if you split into gnu-common.cf the common stuff that isn't debian-specific, and into debian.cf (or site.def) the debian-specific stuff, we'd just have to send gnu-common.cf to upstream and maintain debian.cf/site.def in debian. [1] as of now GNU/Hurd and GNU/*BSD only exist in Debian, but we can't assume that for a configuration file. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]