No, not really. Which home directory ~ did you have in mind? Linux is a multiuser system.
Packages cannot add files to or mess with individual user's home directories during their installation. Which user or users should xdemorse do this to? All users on the system?? Possibilities: (1) It might in theory be possible to create a systemwide config file called say /etc/xdemorserc and have the program read that if no per-user file existed, but then default xdemorse behaviour would be rather different from the upstream software. (2) In theory, xdemorse might possibly be enhanced to create a default ~/.xdemorserc when run, if one does not already exist, but again, that's a significant change in behaviour. I think either of those options would be better implemented by the upstream author(s) of xdemorse rather than in Ubuntu-specific packaging. At present, the supplied example configuration file is there for you. So all you need to do is cp /usr/share/doc/xdemorse/xdemorserc ~/.xdemorserc and edit that as necessary. Given the rather specialized nature of xdemorse itself, I think it's a bit difficult to argue that this is too much to ask of the technically inclined users it is intended for. But if you disagree, I suggest that the place to ask for more automated or system-wide initial configuration of xdemorse would probably be the xdemorse authors, rather than Ubuntu packagers. This is in essence an enhancement request, rather than a bug report. -- xdemorse missing...everything. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661963 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu ham developers, which is subscribed to xdemorse in ubuntu. Status in “xdemorse” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: xdemorse No man entry, no HTML or txt docs anywhere, no license, & the worst offender, no default .xdemorserc file, rendering the program inoperable. Either fix the package or remove it from the repository. Ubuntu 10.10 xdemorse 1.3-5 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
