On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:35:51PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > Since the debconf default-display-manager mechanism is now used to > > determine which display manager runs, shouldn't wdm/Xservers contain a > > valid server line for :0? > > Just uncommented the last line in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers, and wdm ran > perfectly well. It was the reason why wdm did nothing. So it would seem > that postinst (or something) isn't doing the right thing).
Well, it's not quite that. It's that postinst used to do something that would (possibly) result in that line being uncommented. That was how it would resolve conflicts between xdm and wdm. Of course, this also necessitated that postinst edited xdm's Xservers file to comment out its xserver line. That's against policy (one package can't touch another's config files). So now we've got a nice debconf mechanism for choosing the display manager, and all that junk about commenting and uncommenting lines is removed. However, the line in Xservers was commented by default to ensure no breakage. Nothing in the postinst script should touch that file, the file should just contain the right value by default. I will fix that unless Branden can supply me with some reason that it should not be the case. I can't imagine that there'd be one, though. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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