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

[Carlos Carvalho <carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>]

Yves Arrouye (Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr) wrote on 17 September 1996 00:10:
 >That wouldn't resolve Michael's problem: assume I change my
 >app-defaults file for SomeApp, just to adjust colors to my tastes.
 >Then comes a new release of SomeApp, with new features controlled by X
 >resources that are in the app-defaults file. What will dpkg do, then?
 >Propose me to keep my modified file (1), or replace it (2).
 >
 >If (1) changes are that I loose the ability to use the new feature
 >because the app-defaults file lacks some defaults (in most cases the
 >app will even not run).
 >
 >If (2) I get the new feature but lose my colors changes.
 >
 >It is extremely hard to update a changed file automatically (don't
 >talk about patch, please, this works only if the organization of the
 >file didn't change), so the best way is effectively to make resources
 >mofifications *outside* of the app-defaults file to keep them local
 >and still be able to upgrade nicely.

Exactly. That's why Jamie Zawinsky (or however it's spelled...)
strongly recommends against such files. Have a look at netscape
readmes'.

Carlos