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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KConfig XT: kconfig_compiler & friends
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2003-10-02 3:08:44
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On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:57 pm, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:34 pm, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > On that topic does anyone else thing that having a compiler, config
> > files, more files in kdelibs _just_ so developers don't have to type the
> > default value of a setting in two places seem silly to anyone else? For
> > applications with a very large number of settings putting them all of the
> > default values in one file is a very nice thing to have, but I see no
> > other benefit.
>
> One word "Sysadmin"
>
> These guys maintain more than one desktop at a time, im sure any admin who
> you can provide an easy way to roll out a desktop change to more than 5
> systems in an automated way would love you... or at least not hate you.
>
> Just my 2c as a recovering systems admin :)
>
> Cheers
> 	-ian reinhart geiser

How does this system benifit them at all?  It is all compiled in the binary. 

Currently the way of running x app, modifing the settings, exiting and 
distributing the config file to all of the machines is still the only way 
that I know of.  Did I miss some feature of the new skeleton system?

- -Benjamin Meyer

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