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The problem of making the defaults transparent has been solved a long time a go. Standard convention for a lot of software is to have one config file (for inst
by rickmb 15y ago
The problem of making the defaults transparent has been solved a long time a go.
Standard convention for a lot of software is to have one config file (for instance often with the extension .dist) with all the default settings, and lots of comments about them, and a local config which is the one you edit.
- nodata 15y agoYes so essentially you have the commented defaults config file (under /usr/share or hopefully under /etc) and you overwrite non-default settings. It should all be so simple, but most programs still don't do it.