On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:23:50PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > You should see to it that debian's xterm config works for ALL users of > debian systems. Impossible, because the terminal characteristics of the identifier "xterm" are not standardized. > "users" covers people who connect to debian systems, not just people > who run debian on their own desktops. Perfectly true. This is also not news to anyone. > Right now, you have the "majority" covered. But you could cover 100% of > them by following the xterm FAQ recommendations. Nope, I can't. Systems that lack XFree86's xterm implementation will just complain of an unknown terminal type when you connect to them. Furthermore, because what "TERM=xterm" means is not standardized, no value I can set can possibly be compatible with all other implementations. $TERM will either be wrong under some circumstances, or undefined under some circumstances, no matter what I do. The xterm app-defaults file is a conffile in part so that YOU can select a solution that works better for YOU. Pretending that you know the specific needs of every member of the entire Debian community is presumptuous and/or stupid. Pick one. > The fact that you deliberately choose not to, shows a poor attitude towards > making debian the best it can be. The fact that you are attacking me this way reveals your ignorance of the nature of the problem. > Nothing shows this off better than your own proud proclamation that you > ignored a direct request from the founder of Debian, Ian, to make xterm > configs more globally compatible. Here's a clue for ya, kid. The founder of Debian works in the office next to me. Last I checked, his name wasn't Ian Jackson. /me notes that Mr. Brown hasn't fully grasped the Official Motto of the X Strike Force yet /me decides that Mr. Brown never will, and killfiles him -- G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; Debian GNU/Linux | let's die doing something *useful*! branden@debian.org | -- Hal Clement, on comments that http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | space exploration is dangerous
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