Re: gnome-wm

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:21:56PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:55AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Basically, it would be nice if one of the gnome packages asked a debconf
> > question about this, and set the x-window-manager accordyingly.
> 
> For now this is not a good solution, because update-alternatives is a
> system wide configuration and only root can change that.

> And guess what, the debconf thingy asking question at package install
> time run as root.

> Seriously though, what is the problem with it ?

Linux is multi-users. That's all.

Christian