Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > There was a brief power out last night; when I came in today, all of
> > my workstations booted to fvwm2, when my preferred wm is windowmaker.
> > Somewhere over the last few updates fvwm2 silently (IMO offering to
> > change the configuration as the default option in the middle of
> > upgrading 150 packages is "silent") substituted itself as the
> > preferred wm.
>
> I've been bitten by this as well.
Old bug; no longer a problem per se as fvwm{,1,2} now uses the
x-window-manager alternative system, so once the sysadmin has chosen a
particular wm manually, it is retained through upgrades.
Julian
(fvwm* maintainer, but happy for someone to take it over...)
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