Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> wrote:
> Third scenario:
[snip]
> This time the differences between the currently installed and
> the new app-defaults file are huge. The output of `diff' is not
> easy to understand, and the admin makes a mistake and assumes
> that nothing important has changed, just the arrangement of the
> file. She does not add the new resource. Application crashes.
> Not so good.
Well, a smart admin (that's infact what I would do then ;-) would make a
diff between his changed version and the config file of the old package.
He would then discover that you changed the color (or whatever it was),
remove his config file, install the new version of the package and have a
look at it, how he could change the color in the changed environment.
So I think (as stated in another mail here) we have to choose if
a) app-defaults is part of the _code_ or
b) app-defaults is a configuration file of the program
Debian has chosen a) and there are goods arguments for a) since one
actually can *change* the code via action lists, for example (the
reaction on an event). I didn't know that first and therefore I
suggested (see another mail in this thread) that we add a comment to
the (very small) paragraph in /usr/doc/readme.debian.
I was used to change the app-defaults file but I think I will live as
good as before if I make my changes in /etc/X11/Xresources since I
know there are good reasons for it.
Cheers,
Chris
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