Subject: Re: Preserving local configuration on X11 upgrade
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 01/19/2004 00:38:44
Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> writes:
> There's a few possible solutions, including:
>
> 1. Move the files that are likely to be modified
> by the end user to a new set "xetc.tgz", and
> only install these files in with "make distribution"
> instead of "make install".
I don't like this much, because it would be nice to keep /usr
shareable etc. -- config files really should be in /etc/ and not
scattered about.
> 2. Symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/foo to /etc/X11/foo.
> There's still an issue of when to populate /etc/X11/foo,
> unless we just ship examples in /usr/share/examples/foo.
This seems okay for now.
> 3. Modify all the programs to use /etc/X11/foo instead of
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/foo. This is more effort than I can
> be bothered with.
Ultimately we should do this, but 2) would be enough for the moment.
Perry