~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources.

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>]

[07:50:59 /tmp]$ zgrep -A7 "Chris Gray" /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Emacs-Begin
ner-HOWTO.txt.gz | head -8
  Chris Gray (cgray4@po-box.mcgill.ca) also notes:


       In Debian, the ~/.Xdefaults doesn't seem to be used.  How­
       ever, Debian people can put what you have given in
       /etc/X11/Xresources/emacs and they can have the pretty col­
       ors that they had when they were using RedHat.

[07:51:02 /tmp]$ 

Is it correct? What is the reasoning this is done? Is it documented somewhere 
under /usr/share/doc?