On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:39:22PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:31:51PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > If this isn't done here, it needs to be done whereever autodetect_* is > > checked (you need to pull back from Ubuntu, as I've made a whole ton of > > changes that fix preseeding, and have dpkg-reconfigure ask you if you > > want to autodetect stuff or whatever), otherwise you're going to get > > wildly inconsistent results. > > I've spent a couple hours beating my head against this, and I can't figure > out why this would need to be done. The codepaths seem to work as I expect > them to, with it preserving the selections you choose. The only thing that > I'm not certain that I want to keep is that when you choose to autodetect, > it'll preserve the previous answer regardless of what's autodetected. I'm > planning to change this behavior, but is there anything I'm missing?
Because if you have any non-default settings, they won't get overwritten, so you end up with a config file that may not actually work. Also, stuff like use_sync_ranges won't get reset to no, and that's all kinds of bad. Personally, I'd vote for dragging the autodetect_* changes back and resetting all the relevant questions on autodetect (e.g. reset all the keyboard answers on autodetect_keyboard), only preserving previous answers in the 'no' case. To be honest, I don't see the Debconf interface as being valuable. I don't think it provides anything over xorg.conf for the average user, since you're going to have to be googling it anyway, and ... yeah. I just don't see why it would be used at all. The only thing we use it for is sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg -> instant config regeneration, with full redetection.
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