Re: Upgrading X shouldn't overwrite XF86Config, or should it?

[Paul Fleischer <proguy@proguy.dk>]

man, 2001-12-10 kl. 16:59 skrev Junichi Uekawa:
> On 10 Dec 2001 15:02:15 +0100
> 
> I believe Dexconf is not living up to its advertisement, as 
> described in the manpage, it should not write anything outside :
> 
>        Dexconf writes only to the area between
>               ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
>        and
>               ### END DEBCONF SECTION
>        in the configuration file. 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 	junichi
> 

Hmm, I see - I wasn't aware of that. But now I know how to prevent that
from hapening again, thanks ;)

The problem however is that my old XF86Config-4 did not contain any of
those tags. IMHO that should be a clearly sign to Dexconf NOT to touch
the file.

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