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Bug#153612: xfree86-common



tag 153612 + wontfix
thanks

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 03:24:17PM +0200, jul wrote:
> Package: xfree86-common
> Version: 4.2.1-11
> Followup-For: Bug #153612
> 
[the following moved from the Subject: line]
> Patch of Xsession to support the sourcing of user session
> If it can help this is what I have done to support the sourcing of
> Xsession
> 
> 
> It is not much, but it it can help close the bug :)
> @line 105 /etc/X11/Xsession add 
> ### sourcing user Xsession
> if [ -e $USERXSESSION ];  then
>         . $USERXSESSION
>         exit 0
> fi
> 
> Friendly yours,
> 
> Julien Tayon

Thanks for the patch, but the reason isn't being fixed isn't because
it's difficult.  It's because I disagree on design grounds with the
idea.

A user X session file should *replace* the system's default X session,
not augment it.

However, local admins can disagree, and that is why the scripts that
control the system default X session in Debian are "conffiles",
modifiable by the local administrator, whose changes will be preserved
by the packaging system across upgrades.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    Ambition: an overmastering desire
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    to be vilified by enemies while
branden@debian.org                 |    living and ridiculed by friends
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