Bug 344223 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2: xorg.conf.d files installed in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d instead of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description akakitsu 2010-11-05 00:05:47 UTC]

After emerging x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2 the evdev conf file and xorg.conf.d directory are not present in /etc/X11/
I had to install porthole to find out if it installed it at all and found it in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

I upgraded directly from xorg-server-1.7* with udev and hal flag enabled

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge xorg-server-1.9.2
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Actual Results:  
10-evdev.conf is installed in:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Expected Results:  
10-evdev.conf is installed in:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

[Comment 1 akakitsu 2010-11-05 00:08:02 UTC]

Created attachment 253239 [details]
emerge --info xorg-server

[Comment 2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2010-11-05 00:13:02 UTC]

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is the place for distributor supplied default configuration files.

Please explain why you think that 10-evdev.conf should be installed to /etc instead of /usr/share.

[Comment 3 akakitsu 2010-11-05 00:26:34 UTC]

With the new structure for xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d/*.conf files, adding them would make sense. If a user wants a specific rule they can add it in xorg.conf and it overrides/compliments xorg.conf.d/*.conf rules.

With the old hal behaviour the .fdi files were added by the driver. Since xf86-input-evdev does not install the *.conf file maybe this bug should be directed there?

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-11-05 07:02:16 UTC]

There's no bug, everything is as we intended it. xorg-server ships the 10-evdev.conf file. Maybe we'll move that file back to evdev, I don't know.

But it works now.

Thanks