From kde-devel Thu Apr 19 02:50:14 2001 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 02:50:14 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: NEW: kconf_update, a framework for updating configuration files. X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98765336800786 On Wednesday 18 April 2001 18:00, Dawit Alemayehu wrote: > > Currently it overwrites it, but I will probably make it so that the key > > will be ignored if the desitnation key already exists. Maybe with an > > option to override that on a key to key basis, but only if someone can > > point me to a case where that is needed. > > Hmm... isn't it better to ignore this key update by default unless, as you > state, an override is specified ? Yes, that's what I say (or mean at least) > BTW, how about just copying from one config file to another and instead of > moving ? Would that be out of context for an updater ? This can be used to > duplicate some existing keys with the user defined entries into new config > files without removing them from the original one. Yes, that's another option that I will probably add. Cheers, Waldo -- bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<