Comment # 8 on bug 948991 from Ian Powell

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #7)
> (In reply to Ian Powell from comment #6)
> > I guess this should be mentioned to the people who merge config files for
> > releases so hopefully all merged config files in the future are clean e.g.
> > old keywords removed etc.
> 
> You misunderstand.
> 
> Nobody "merges" kdm config files for releases.
> 
> This is done automatically on runtime when kdm starts.
> Some settings are taken from /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, a new config
> file is created from them and then merged with the standard one.
> 
> TBH, I very much doubt that this can even be "fixed", without dropping
> support for /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager completely (which would cause
> other bug reports).

ok, thanks.  let hope that going forward on other software (obviously not kdm)
when this sort of process takes place that an auto-merge doesn't create these
minor issues