On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:50:19PM +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: > I am very uncomfortable with the recent move of app-defaults to /etc. Sorry to hear that. > Why can't the X11 applications use a file from /etc/X11 if it's there > and otherwise default to the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults directory? Because Xt isn't written that way. > I don't care for changing the app-defaults for most X applications, But some people do; that's why they have moved to /etc. Mind you, upstream made this decision, not me. I just happen to agree with it. > and I don't want to even see them in /etc. You always have the option of not installing the packages that use them. For instance, on my workstation at work, I have only 4 packages installed that use app-defaults: xbase-clients, xterm, xscreensaver, xmcd. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are doing, Debian GNU/Linux | emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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