On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:09:43AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote: > My understand that: > > `X resource files (e.g /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm) is > conffiles'. So in xfree86_4.0.1.deb, X RESOURCE files will move from > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory to /etc/X11/app-defaults > directory and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults symlink point to > /etc/X11/app-defaults > > Is it right?
Yes, that is correct, and a change from traditional Debian policy. However, upstream is pointing the way and it is clear that they want app-defaults files in /etc. > But X resource files are not only place in /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults. > We can put X resource file to /usr/X11R6/lib/$LANG/app-defaults. Very true; I initially tried to fix this properly but it wouldn't work. [...] > I think better to set not only #define XAppLoadDir but also > #define XFileSearchPathDefaul host.def > > If #define XFileSearchPathDefaul is set like this: > > #define XFileSearchPathDefault > Concat4(EtcX11Directory/%L/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%l/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%T/%N%C,%S:EtcX11Directory/%L/%T/%N%S:EtcX11Directory/%l/%T/%N%S:EtcX11Directory/%T/%N%S):Concat4($(LIBDIR)/%L/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%l/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%T/%N%C,%S:$(LIBDIR)/%L/%T/%N%S:$(LIBDIR)/%l/%T/%N%S:$(LIBDIR)/%T/%N%S) > > X resource searching order is bellow: > > $HOME/ja_JP.eucJP/XCalendar > $HOME/ja/XCalendar > $HOME/XCalendar > /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XCalendar > /etc/X11/ja/app-defaults/XCalendar > /etc/X11/app-defaults/XCalendar > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XCalendar > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ja/app-defaults/XCalendar > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalendar > > If the package's X resources installed into > /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults and /etc/X11/app-defaults, > X resource switching by using env LANG scheme will work correctly. > > Any comments? I will apply your patch for phase2v20, and we'll see if it works. Thanks very much for your contribution. -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Because we use vi, son. They use http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | emacs."
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