On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:39:59PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Policy states: > > *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the directory > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are considered as part of the > program code. Thus, they should not be modified and should not be > tagged as *conffile*. If the local system administrator wants to > customise X applications globally, the file `/etc/X11/Xresources' > should be used. > > Seems to me that /etc/X11/Xresources could become a mess of stuff. If the > app-defaults file were a conffile, then if it changed in a new release of > the package users who made changes would be warned. As it is, a user who > made change has to check this by hand (how?) at every upgrade. > Hmmm... Reminds me of slackware. app-defaults and Xresources files are handled differently. Only local clients see the settings in appt-defaults. Xresources are seen by all clients. Xresources won't become a mess because in the next release of X it will become a directory. packages that use X resources should put a file in that directory, for example: /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm These files should be conffiles. Packages that don't need to specify any resources by default here should still create the file, I think. There will be examples in the next X release. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | It tastes good. branden@purdue.edu | -- Bill Clinton http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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