On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:21:30PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> I just uploaded asclassic_1.1b-11 with "Provides: x-window-manager"
> and
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \
> x-window-manager /usr/bin/X11/${wm} 50 \
> --slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz \
> x-window-manager.1.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man1/${wm}.1x.gz
>
> in postinst,
>
> update-alternatives --remove x-window-manager /usr/bin/X11/"$wm"
>
> in prerm. ($wm is set to "asclassic")
>
> It still uses "register-window-manager in postinst and postrm, though.
Looks great, thanks! We might want to remove the register-window-manager
backwards compatibility before potato releases; it looks like we may have
all the currently packaged window managers using the new system by then.
Is anybody in debian-x a window manager that isn't using the
x-window-manager alternative and virtual package yet?
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