On Feb 15, 2008, at 22:26, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > >> Currently on selfupdate macports.conf is not updated in any way if it >> already existed. This "hides" new options from long time users. > > Yep. Very common problem with configuration files! > >> An up-to-date macports.conf provides a good overview over all options >> and contains short documentation lines. >> [ ... ] >> 1) Add macports.conf.dist > > Yes, at a minimum, you need an updated reference config file available > at all times, though I dislike the .dist approach. If it's just a > passive reference, then you need to either write a merge utility (like > FreeBSD's "mergemaster") or dump the entire problem of merging in the > user's lap, neither solution bringing much happiness. A better > approach is FreeBSD's /etc/defaults - a set of shadow files you keep > up to date, making the primary configuration file an override. You > can still get stale data lingering in the user configuration file, > keeping an option on or off when the default has changed, but > sometimes that's a feature. > > This is, in any case, how I'd handle this one. Always install a > macports.conf.default and add some logic to load the two in order > (macports.conf should, in fact, be optional).
Great, and after we solve this, we'll do the same for all the software one could install using MacPorts, right? :-D _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev