Dual monitor (LCD) support

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Apr 12 14:52:13 UTC 2005


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:30:20AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote:
> Careful with modifying configuration files by hand.  It can create
> problems with debconf.  I don't know if the situation has improved
> recently, but in the past, manually editing a file would make debconf
> (or dpkg-reconfigure) silently fail to update files.  Upgrades usually
> rely on accurate data in the debconf system.

Upgrades will not touch your configuration, and they don't rely on
anything being synchronised between debconf and the configuration file.
dpkg-reconfigure will always create you a fresh configuration file, and
back the old one up.

Daniel, who runs custom configurations on both his daily-use machines
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