Re: app-defaults vs. Xresources
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Richard Kaszeta wrote:
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> >Priority: non-urgent
> >Importance: low
> >
> >Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> writes:
> >
> >> 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?
>
I'm agreed with Richard. I prefered to put my default configuration in
app-default and overriding it in Xressources (or .Xressource) than doing
the inverse.
Why not putting the app-default in config files?
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