[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648553: Bug#648553: xfce4-utils: runs xrdb -merge with the -nocpp option

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Fri Nov 18 20:27:47 UTC 2011


On ven., 2011-11-18 at 10:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
> > On jeu., 2011-11-17 at 13:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >> Well, hopefully one would only use the default behavior when loading
> >> the user's personal configuration (and maybe system-wide defaults),
> >> where cpp is part of the expected interface.
> 
> > Well, it seems that -nocpp was used since a long time, so “expected
> > interface” doesn't really stand here.
> 
> Well, for Xfce, yes, but I think every other desktop environment uses the
> defaults.  At least, I was switching from GNOME and can confirm that it
> definitely uses the preprocessor when parsing the user's .Xresources,
> since that's what triggered the original bug, and I know it also worked
> with WindowMaker and OpenSTEP.  I haven't tested KDE.  Also, it's the
> default behavior if you're not using a desktop environment (which
> admittedly is getting rare).

That's expected, they just don't ship anything doing it, and use the one
from /etc/X11/Xsession.d I'd say.
> 
> I don't *think* you're likely to run into any backward compatibility
> problems by removing -nocpp from Xfce.  I can't think of an otherwise
> valid .Xresources file that would then break.

I wasn't really thinking about incompatibilities, but rather time.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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