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Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store
> for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup.
> If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could write a parser
> for it (I don't think it merits yacc, like the one for setup.ini :-D).
Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or setup-edited?
I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if they get removed every time
setup re-writes the file.
Also, what do we do about multi-valued items - e.g. which mirrors are
selected. (Or do we just continue with the legacy storage for
last-mirror/last-cache/timestamp?)