https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377587
--- Comment #6 from Simon <freisi...@gmail.com> --- Below are three emails concerning this issue posted to the developer mailing list. Apparently I wrote quite a few comments to bugs by email which never reached the actual bug. Sorry if I spammed the mailing list with tries to get it to work (I didn't). On 24/03/17 04:32, Gilles Caulier wrote: > Simon, > > I agree with Andrew. Point 2/ is more logic in this scénario. > > Note : Why this story is not fully in bugzilla file ? Somebody has > responded directly by mail to the bugzilla notification and the file is not > updated as 377587 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377587> comments... > > I recommend to backport missing comments in bugzilla to not lost full > story. > > Gilles > > > > 2017-03-24 1:00 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <aj...@elfringham.co.uk>: > >> My vote is for 2) - always do what you're told and only what you're told. >> Give as much control to the user as possible, do not do unexpected things. >> Using a different config and/or creating a new one is very unexpected. I >> see no reason to assume the config would be colocated with the database, >> that's a very strange idea. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> On 23/03/17 11:48, Simon Frei wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the clarification, I get your scenario now. So it is a >>> trade-off between no side-effects and data safety. I still think that a >>> user using the command line options should be aware of the difference >>> between config and database and therefore be in charge of using >>> sensible/safe options. However planning for the DAU is also a good idea. >>> >>> I would like to hear what Gilles/Maik/Mario/... think about this. >>> Recap: The question is which of these options is favourable (arguments >>> in the comments above): >>> 1. Set config to the same directory as --database-directory. If no >>> config file exists there, create a new one/copy over the default one >>> (still respecting --config if given). >>> 2. Always use the default config unless --config is given, also with >>> --database-directory. >>> >>> >>> -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
