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Bug#239271: xserver-xfree86: dexconf not rewriting modified XF86Config-4



On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:53:04AM +0100, Matthias Ferdinand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> --On Montag, März 22, 2004 16:28:03 -0500 Branden Robinson 
> <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >>- when not using the "--force" Flag, it should offer to write to
> >>    a different File (as in "mktemp XF86Config-4.XXXXXX")
> >
> >This is not possible, for the same reason.  There is no way for the
> >script to tell whether or not "--force" was specified.
> 
> when writing to a different file anyway, then it would not need to depend 
> on the "--force" flag.
> Simply would be a nice feature to produce the requested config but still 
> not overwriting a customized one.

Please read the dexconf(1) manpage.

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