From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 27 15:46:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26261 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA26255 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA04888; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:41:49 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199512272341.XAA04888@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) 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 In-Reply-To: <199512222258.QAA02389@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Dec 22, 95 04:58:16 pm Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rich Murphey who said > > |From: Paul Richards > |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)