Re: Fixing /etc for native X.Org

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > if you had -V arguments to build.sh, they need to be passed down there
> > > too.
> 
> Well, sure.  But that's the user's problem.  If the user insists on
> running postinstall or etcupdate in non-recommended ways (using a source
> tree instead of using etc.tgz and xetc.tgz set files), then they are
> responsible for passing all the variables that affect the build.  All we
> have to do is document it.

We should also make the unsafe way not be the default.  Last time I
brought this up, there was opposition.

--apb (Alan Barrett)