17:15 <farkuhar> I'm having trouble identifying which port in the xorg collection is responsible for creating /var/lib/xkb. The meson setup command in the xorg-server Pkgfile refers to this directory, and the xkeyboard-config build script makes a symlink to this directory, but no port actually has var/lib/xkb in its footprint!

18:06 <farkuhar> And if /var/lib/xkb is supposed to be created at runtime when X is first launched, how can we be sure that the user has the necessary permissions to create a directory in /var/lib? A user in the video and input groups, running stenur's startx script, would not have the escalated privileges of the setuid Xorg.wrap binary.

18:29 <groovy2shoes> $ ls /var/lib/xkb

18:29 <groovy2shoes> ls: cannot access '/var/lib/xkb': No such file or directory

18:30 <groovy2shoes> definitely running X

18:32 <SiFuh> You'll probably find a desktop environment is creating it

19:20 <farkuhar> actually I think the xorg-server footprint changed when the build system switched to meson: https://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux/2021-September/006979.html

19:22 <farkuhar> ... and no port subsequently volunteered to handle the creation of /var/lib/xkb

19:25 <SiFuh> farkuhar: possible, what is the time stamp of that actual directory?

19:28 <farkuhar> SiFuh: just like groovy2shoes, the directory doesn't exist on my system. The first time I built xorg-server on this machine was after the switch to meson.

19:30 <farkuhar> The absence of the directory is not fatal to the server. I wouldn't have noticed it except that the broken symlink showed up in a routine filesystem scan.

19:30 <SiFuh> Didn't answer my question but I will check my older back ups

19:31 <SiFuh> farkuhar: you are 100% correct

19:33 <SiFuh> My 2021 10 26 backup doesn't have it but every backup before has it