Re: Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Wichert Akkerman writes ("Re: Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition"):
> Previously Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Why not [automatically convert users' configs] ?
> 
> Lots of nastiness: users might currently be logged in and suddenly
> have files changing underneath them. NFS /home will also break things.

I hope GNOME 1 won't mind the user suddenly acquiring lots of GNOME 2
config files, and clearly the user ought not to be running GNOME 2
until it's set up ...

> We had the same problem with fvwm/fvwm2 a couple of years ago and
> ended up with the postinst offering to try and convert the config
> for all users but also offering a commandline tool users could use
> to update their config.

That seems like a sensible plan to do again.  Is there some reason not
to do that ?

Ian.