From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 27 16:40:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28082 for current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28076 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:40:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA24557; Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:37:41 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199512280037.QAA24557@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: pcnfsd.. To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 16:37:41 -0800 (PST) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, 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: <199512280007.SAA09660@rmurphy.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at Dec 27, 95 06:07:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > |From: Paul Richards > |Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 23:41:49 +0000 (GMT) > |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. > > OK, yes, although you can override the default value of the > app-defaults directory path using the XAPPLRESDIR environment > variable, you can't otherwise change the default itself systemwide. Is what I would like is to change XAPPLRESDIR from specifying a single directory to being a path (perhaps even rename it to XAPPLRESPATH). > > Do you want the clients to read another configuration file that will > specify the default location of all other configuration files on local > filesystems? This would add the overhead of opening the extra > configuration file and you'd be faced with a similar issue of chosing > a location for the runtime determination of that path. > > Or do you want to have the clients search > /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults first before looking in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults? Or do you have another scheme in > mind? Rich > XAPPLRESPATH=~/X11/app-defaults:/usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD