Re: app-defaults vs. Xresources
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>Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> writes:
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>> 1. If I change /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults, then this change will effect
>> all users of Xdvi on my machine.
>>
>> 2. If I add this customisation to /etc/X11/Xresources, then since
>> /etc/X11/Xresources (and .Xresources) only effect the copy of X
>> running on the local machine, users on other machines will experience
>> incorrect behavior.
>
>The flaw in your reasoning is that an upgrade of xdvi will overwrite
>/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XDvi. Even if the file in app-defaults were
>to be a conffile, a future version of XDvi might break with an old
>app-default. The current way of overriding defaults in a separate
>file really is better.
Yeah, I understand this problem, but don't see much I can do with it.
>If you have a network of machines, you'll need to change
>/etc/X11/Xresources on each one. Programs like rdist can make this
>relatively easy.
I can't really "upgrade" machines outside my site, can I?
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Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
bofh@bofh.me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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