On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 02:33, Ray Strode wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 21:27 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:
> > > So, as this thread illustrates, there are plenty of opinions on the
> > > screensavers.
> > >
> > > Perhaps someone with the authority/ability can make a call on this based
> > > on the various options floated on this thread and go ahead with it.
> > So what I'm going to end up doing is making the base xscreensaver
> > package have a small number of screensavers, and then have an additional
> > package for the more fancy ones.
>
> Have you already decided how to tackle the "how can xscreensaver hacks
> packages be dropped in simply" problem I outlined in one of my last
> posts?
>
> I've already messed around with adding hacks to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/XScreensaver (in the course of packaging
> rss-glx for Fedora) and this is neither fun and nor reliable ;-) -- you
> need to deal with any of {xscreensaver base package,random xscreensaver
> extra hacks package} being {installed,removed,updated}. I'd vote very
> much for some /etc/xscreensaver/hacks.d directory where extra hacks
> pacvkages can simply drop their configuration.
Seconded. I've seen the rss-glx %post hack and by gawd it's not, uh,
exactly clean :)
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