Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Policy states: > > *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the directory > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are considered as part of the > program code. Thus, they should not be modified and should not be > tagged as *conffile*. If the local system administrator wants to > customise X applications globally, the file `/etc/X11/Xresources' > should be used. > > What's the logic here?
app-defaults files are very version specific. If you have the app-defaults file from one version of a program that depends heavily on it installed and update to a newer version the program then that program would probably not display correctly at all. greg
