Re: gnome-wm

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:14:49PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> 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.

Ok, but it needs sane system-wide defaults.

And per user configuration as a response to broken system-wide defaults
is not a solution.

Friendly,

Sven Luther