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Re: preserving window manager selection on upgrades.



On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:02:27PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> This is 100% true, but how can we educate users that
> /etc/X11/window-managers is no longer used at all? Can we perhaps sed
> in a comment line or two at the top of the file saying:
> 
> # WARNING: This file is no longer used as of (version)!
> # Please use 'update-alternatives --configure x-window-manager' instead.
> 
> Ben

Would it be safe to delete it in the postinst of the new appropriate X
package?

   Julian

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