Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 1996 16:25:38 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 87zq2qtdfh.fsf@calder.med.miami.edu>
In-reply-to: Christian Schwarz's message of Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:48:24 +0200 (MET DST)
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.94.960916204204.277A-100000@klee>

Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> Well, couldn't the files in app-defaults be marked as config files
> ("DEBIAN/conffiles") in the packages?

Only if you want Ian Jackson to post a bug report against your
package---conffiles do not belong in /usr.

Please look at /usr/doc/X11/debian.README for the proper procedure for
making system-wide changes to application default values.

Mike.

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