Bug#239271: xserver-xfree86: dexconf not rewriting modified XF86Config-4

[Matthias Ferdinand <mf@mferd.de>]

Hello,

--On Montag, März 22, 2004 16:28:03 -0500 Branden Robinson 
<branden@debian.org> wrote:

> > - when not using the "--force" Flag, it should offer to write to
> >     a different File (as in "mktemp XF86Config-4.XXXXXX")
>
> This is not possible, for the same reason.  There is no way for the
> script to tell whether or not "--force" was specified.

when writing to a different file anyway, then it would not need to depend 
on the "--force" flag.
Simply would be a nice feature to produce the requested config but still 
not overwriting a customized one.

Regards
Matthias Ferdinand