Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, andreas@knobel.gun.de, graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. Message-ID: <199512272341.XAA04888@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199512222258.QAA02389@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Dec 22, 95 04:58:16 pm
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In reply to Rich Murphey who said > > |From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> > |I think you're mixing up the idea of config files and startup files, X config > |files will still end up in the X tree which is something we should be a bit > |more forcefull about with the X folks because it's a badly broken concept. > > Most of the critical X runtime config files such as > XF86Config or xdm-config can be put in /etc so that the > distribution copies in /usr/X11R6.. are ignored. > > What config files do you mean? Perhaps we can sort it out. > Rich > It'd be good if X programs picked up their config files from somewhere specifiable, this would include stuff that end up in the app-defaults directory. You could nuke X11R6/* and re-install a new verios of XFree86 then without worrying about clobbering any local packages. There are other advantages too. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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