Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-11-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
So I got to prototyping this, just to play around with it and see what worked. Then I was reading a thread on debian-mentors about Apache configuration, and I remembered how much of a pain that is currently. It occurred to me that a merging system could perhaps be used to make this sane. I'd

Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-11-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
So I got to prototyping this, just to play around with it and see what worked. Then I was reading a thread on debian-mentors about Apache configuration, and I remembered how much of a pain that is currently. It occurred to me that a merging system could perhaps be used to make this sane. I'd

Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:54:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:10:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I don't think that existing .config handling necessarily needs to change at this point, unless we want to provide a standard way to suppress all attempts at

Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:54:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:10:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I don't think that existing .config handling necessarily needs to change at this point, unless we want to provide a standard way to suppress all attempts at

Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:10:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:02:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Matt, I'd be more than happy to use xfree86 in unstable as a testbed for your proposal. If you agree, let's migrate this subthread over to debian-x. OK,

Re: Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:10:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:02:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Matt, I'd be more than happy to use xfree86 in unstable as a testbed for your proposal. If you agree, let's migrate this subthread over to debian-x. OK,

Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:02:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Yes, now that I've written this mail, I've pretty much made up my mind. I like your idea. If the user dicks with the autogenerated file, we slam on the brakes and toss him into the manual configuration ghetto where he belongs.

Configuration file handling (Re: [desktop] Unix configuration nightmare)

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:02:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Yes, now that I've written this mail, I've pretty much made up my mind. I like your idea. If the user dicks with the autogenerated file, we slam on the brakes and toss him into the manual configuration ghetto where he belongs.