warning: /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc created as /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc.rpmnew
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 6 13:31:26 UTC 2005
David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:21 -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:01 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
>>
>>>It means that you updated a KDE package and the RPM preserved your
>>>settings while writing the new configuration to a reference file.
>>
>>That sounds like a good thing. Why then does it say "warning?"
>
>
> Because it is possible that, while retaining existing configuration
> options, new user variables are ignored.
The idea is that you are alerted to the fact that there may have been
some changes in the default configuration file, so you may wish to merge
those changes in to the configuration file you're using so as to take
advantage of any bug fixes/new features that might result from the update.
Paul.
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