Bug#252543: gdm.conf tweaks make maintenance difficult - two
level configs?
Nathan Hurst
Nathan Hurst <njh@hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au>,
252543@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:14:30 +1000
Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: wishlist
Could the gdm.conf be separated into a package level config and a
customised overide set by gdmconfig or something? Everytime I upgrade
the system I have to manually go through and reapply user's preferences
and having the maintainer's version changing every week is frustrating.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-pre5-ben0
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.56 Add and remove users and groups
ii blackbox [x-window-m 0.65.0-1.2 Window manager for X
ii debconf 1.4.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.22 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii fvwm [x-window-manag 2.5.10-6 F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii gksu 1.0.7-1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.6.1-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-te 2.6.1-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii konsole [x-terminal- 4:3.2.2-1 KDE X terminal emulator
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.0-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1-3 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgsf-1 1.9.1-4 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.1-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.76-21 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-21 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-21 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.6.4-5 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.12-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-4 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-m 1:2.8.1-3 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii rxvt [x-terminal-emu 1:2.6.4-6 VT102 terminal emulator for the X
ii rxvt-ml [x-terminal- 1:2.6.4-6 multi-lingual VT102 terminal emula
ii sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20031104-5 A window manager for X11
ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm