Bug#329929: gucharmap: postinst blows away system immodules configuration

Roger Leigh rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org
Sun Sep 25 15:21:43 UTC 2005


Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org> writes:

> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> Justification: Replaces conffile from another package, wiping any
>> customisation
>
>  I'm not sure the file should be edited by end-users.  It probably
>  shouldn't be in /etc either.
[...]
>  Hence, I think it's safe to remove this snipset, but I think gtk and
>  other gtk im modules packages should switch to a different location,
>  such as /var/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules, to be FHS compliant.

I think that sounds OK, though I would like to be able to disable
methods I will never use, e.g. Eritrean.


Regards,
Roger

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