> In re-envisioning the X server debconfage for post-sarge, I am considering > a design along the lines of: > > * Dumbing the interaction down to just the setting of parameters. > * Providing fallback question defaults to address 2). > * Providing user-invisible templates that "shadow" certain questions, which > will exist to let autodetection tools poke values into them.
If my understanding is correct (and yours is probably much better than mine), XFree86 4.4.0 (yes, I know about the licensing problems) claims to have an autoconfiguration mechanism, and the X.Org (6.8.1?) forked off (again) of XFree86 pretty late in the pre 4.4.0 days. I wonder whether much of this will just disappear when Debian moves to x.org. (Wishful thinking?) I'm tempted to download Fedora Core 2 or Fedora Core 3 RC 2 (which are both using x.org) and see what their configuration stuff looks like. > Debian's XFree86 SVN repo is not hosted on alioth (fortunately?). It's > hosted at necrotic.deadbeast.net. > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/README.txt Yeah, I eventually figured that out ;-) -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/
