Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store
>>> for setup.  I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in
>>> /etc/setup. 
>>> If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could write a
>>> parser 
>>> for it (I don't think it merits yacc, like the one for setup.ini
>>> :-D). 
>> 
>> Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or
>> setup-edited? I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if they
>> get removed every time setup re-writes the file.
> 
> It doesn't seem hard to have setup remember the order of options in
> the config file (which would also allow it to remember user
> comments), so that when we write out the options, we can keep the
> order. 

But why bother?


Max.