On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:32, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote: > > > I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What > > > I consider a proper fix is to redefine the configuration files so that > > > they can be parsed. I have learned, the hard way, that using shell > > > scripts for configuration files is a bad idea. > > > > That's true, it's definitely a workaround. The way I did it in > > fontconfig is the way I think it should be done in packages which can't > > (or can't easily) losslessly parse their configuration files. > > OTOH, xml config files (like fontconfig's config) could be losslessly parsed > through xslt processing... Much like any other config file can be losslessly parsed by processing them. That's not really very helpful. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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