On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 18:44, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > With debconf, there is a tendency to have 'please do not change this file' > > again - see XFree, for instance. Yes, writing lossless configfile parser > > is not trivial, but this would imho be the only way. > > This is not by any means the only way. One excellent option is to mimick > the conffile mechanism using debconf, so that the user is only prompted if > they have actually edited the configuration file. If they haven't, then > their existing configuration is overwritten with the updated one. If they > have, then they are prompted about the correct action to take. Don't see what you mean here. If the user has not changed the config file --> we do whatever we like, yes. If the user *has* changed the config file, the config file will have to be parsed - after all, editing the configfile should not cause it to be just impossible to use the menu driven configuration. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: get my key here: http://www.google.com/search?q=mQGiBDx2a6ERBAC8l
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