On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 11:19:36AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > The long-term plan is: > > > > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase > > 2) mark it as a conffile > > 3) separate twm into its own package > > 4) write /usr/sbin/register-window-manager > > I don't think shipping an empty file, and marking it as a conffile, > would be interesting. If this file is going to be modified only by > the registering interface, then this should not be necessary. > > You also don't want to do this because dpkg will offer to replace your > populated /etc/X11/window-managers with an empty one, which would be a > Bad Thing (tm). Well, I only wanted to make it conffile so dpkg wouldn't overwrite it without prompting at all. The only alternative is not to ship a /etc/X11/window-managers file, but to conditionally create it in xbase's postinst. That means no package no package will claim knowledge of it, which I hate. Sounds like a job for "extrafiles". -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | If God had intended for man to go about branden@purdue.edu | naked, we would have been born that way. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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