Re: preserving window manager selection on upgrades.
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Julian Gilbey 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:
>
> Would it be safe to delete it in the postinst of the new appropriate X
> package?
>
I don't think deleting a conf-file is a good idea, as I think conf-files
should belong to the human and not the computer. Moving it to
window-managers.REMOVED and inserting a new file, consisting only of a
comment what has been done and why, may be acceptable, though.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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