On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 07:12:31AM -0400, John Dalbec wrote:
> Package: xserver-common
> Version: 4.2.1-12.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please provide an option to allow xserver-common/dexconf to update only its
> section of the XF86Config-4 file the way it used to do. I went to the trouble
> of moving my customizations outside the DEBCONF SECTION markers, so why should
> I be denied the benefits of doing so? I don't find the original behavior
> "too confusing ... to tolerate". I do find it confusing when you suddenly
> change the behavior.
I made the decision I did based on a high volume of complaints, and a
consensus on configuration file handling which was reached on the
debian-devel mailing list over the past several months.
Once ucf is documented such that I can actually understand it[1], I will
probably migrate to it.
[1] Last time I tried to learn how to use it, I was put off by the
explicit constraint of its scope to management of Emacs-related
files, and a general style that appeared to presume I knew a lot of
things about how ucf worked.
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