Re: X config not written
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On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 1:19 am, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Forgive me, but I do not think he is right at all.
>
> A user running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as root, by this act
> shows his express wish and intention to reconfigure (i.e. to make a new
> conf file). This wish should not be silently ignored.
>
> Automated processes (like upgrades) should indeed not cause arbitrary
> changes in the configuration. And in general Debian upgrades are very
> careful about this, always offering to keep the old config as a
> default. (NOTE: the warnings in the config file itself, which
> "maintainers can expect people to read", only refer to automatic changes
> following upgrades). But a user manually calling a program should be
> able to rely on what its manpage says.
>
> NAME
> dpkg-reconfigure - reconfigure an already installed package
>
> Nowhere in this manpage is dexconf even mentioned.
>
> A "warning", meaning a message "dpkg-reconfigure normally (re)configures
> packages, but not the X server; you have to run dexconf" would at most
> be a kludge. This behaviour should not occur in the first place.
The warning isn't presented by the "dpkg-reconfigure" command for the
"xserver-xfree86" package but it still is mentioned in the "XF86Config-4"
file. "dpkg-reconfigure" doesn't expect you to and assumes that the user
hasn't "manually" modified the configuration file.
Ritesh
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