On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:14:49PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:21:56PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:55AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Basically, it would be nice if one of the gnome packages asked a debconf > > > question about this, and set the x-window-manager accordyingly. > > > > For now this is not a good solution, because update-alternatives is a > > system wide configuration and only root can change that. > > > And guess what, the debconf thingy asking question at package install > > time run as root. > > > Seriously though, what is the problem with it ? > > Linux is multi-users. That's all.
Ok, but it needs sane system-wide defaults. And per user configuration as a response to broken system-wide defaults is not a solution. Friendly, Sven Luther
