dpkg-reconfigure xserver unable to quit

[Will Backman]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 13:22 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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> |> Will Backman wrote:
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> |> | If I use dpkg-reconfigure to reconfigure the xserver, I don't see a way
> |> | to cancel before it writes the changes.  Ctl+c didn't work either.
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> |> The option to backup and stop is disabled because the way to configure
> |> X is so complex that implementing this feature would mean a complete
> |> rewrite of that code and iirc there was one step that stopped me
> |> completely
> |> in doing so due to breaking compatibility with older implementations,
> |> making partial upgrades very very difficult to handle.
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> | I am fresh from wanting  to cancel the wretched thing. It was all sorts
> | of questions I could not reasonable be expected to answer.
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> The questions won't change in anycase. It's the way which all the data are
> handled internally that would.
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> You cannot configure a X server without it.
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> Fabio

Perhaps it could at least make a backup of the XFree86-4 (or the xorg
version) before it goes and writes changes.