Bug 72590

Summary:	dispatch-conf does not recognise comments in X11 files
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Rick Jenkins <rick>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	iyosifov, m.debruijne
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Rick Jenkins 2004-11-26 17:35:54 UTC

For some reason known only to Finagle, God of standard violations, some X11 configuration files use a ! to delimit a comment. This is not recognised by dispatch-conf, so trivial changes in these files have to be hand-cranked. An example file showing the problem is /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-14 07:08:12 UTC

There are some config files where "!" is meaningful.

Comment 2 Rick Jenkins 2005-04-14 10:47:02 UTC

The real solution is to revise the way x.org handles comments. I'll propose it to them.