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[Sergey Davidoff <Shnatsel@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the solution proposed by Martin Pitt all the fun happens on multi-DE
installations. For example, xubuntu-desktop _depends_ on xubuntu-
default-settings, and if a similar package for a different distro gets
installed (lubuntu, mythbuntu, elementary, ubuntu-studio, whatever),
dpkg complains that two packages contain the same file, presents it like
a fatal bug and paralyzes itself.

You can make each package containing such a file provide a virtual
package with which it will conflict and which it will replace *cough*,
but that makes installing two distro metapackages at the same time
impossible, and that sounds pretty ridiculous.

There are also derivatives of derivatives and derivatives of derivatives
of derivatives, and with this system they are deeply screwed and are
doomed to use ugly workarounds.

Please, use some prioritizing system. Debian's alternatives seem to be
the best for this case. It will provide flexibility for generations of
derivatives to come. You can also try to utilize GSettings, but it's not
as good as a real alternatives system for cases like this.

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Title:
  Please let vendors easily provide their own config

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lightdm

  Hi,

  Could you register lightdm.conf in the alternatives system? This would
  let derivatives set another default config easily (as done with gdm),
  and avoid the dpkg-divert nightmare that is going with gdm3.

  (currently, daily builds of xubuntu don't start any session because
  lightdm tries to start gnome which doesn't exist...)

  Thanks.

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