On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 12:04, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote: > Rms, is there a possibility to add this trickery to the rpm package (in > the post-install script or something). > > I don't know very well rpm internals, but will it be possible to add a > perl script that detects if the user has these lines in their > XF86Config-4 and add them if needed automagically?
It's feasible, but I am not sure I can do this without destroying user preferences in the file. Maybe by catching all lines in that section, and analyse each of it... However, it's the distributions job to deal with this, and we can remove this script when it is obsolete, so I guess I will try. Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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