Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:15:59AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > So, why not hack X[2]? Make the library look in /etc/X11/app-defaults, then > > in the old location. Make policy that states that packages depending on the > > X 4 version of that library should use /etc/X11/app-defaults. Such a > > package would break if it were installed onto a system with an older > > xlib, but the dependancy will prevent that. Upgrades and downgrades will > > work without any messy difficulties. You can remove the xlib hack in a > > release or two. > > I was hoping to avoid this, but developing consensus on -policy seems to be > that I should do this. Sigh. Can't you play a trick with XUSERFILESEARCHPATH internally? That might work (I'm assuming it has some built-in default value here). Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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