Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:15:59AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > So, why not hack X[2]? Make the library look in /etc/X11/app-defaults, then
> > in the old location. Make policy that states that packages depending on the
> > X 4 version of that library should use /etc/X11/app-defaults. Such a
> > package would break if it were installed onto a system with an older
> > xlib, but the dependancy will prevent that. Upgrades and downgrades will
> > work without any messy difficulties. You can remove the xlib hack in a
> > release or two.
>
> I was hoping to avoid this, but developing consensus on -policy seems to be
> that I should do this. Sigh.
Can't you play a trick with XUSERFILESEARCHPATH internally? That might
work (I'm assuming it has some built-in default value here).
Wichert.
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