Hello Thanks for your efforts to make configuring l-h easier.
As a l-h user I do the tar -czvf for configuration archival. I think that removing the default options form the configuration is not as easy but perhaps it could be done. The default options in the configuration serve two purposes: 1) it's the only place where the options are set - to allow customization you would have to load default options and then user options 2) documentation of the possible settings and their defaults - if there was a defaults file you could just look there and copy the options you wan to change - perhaps the configuration file should mention the location of the defaults file in a comment Merging the various configuration files in a XML file as opposed to a tar archive has one great advantage - while it's not humanely possible to write a XML file it is possible to edit it or use a VCS on it if it has reasonably placed line breaks. Still XML is only a poor compromise between machine parseability and human readability. Have you considered something like an INI file? It has sections and variables, and if you want to store verbatim files you could perhaps introduce verbatim sections. Also I think that splitting the configuration into multiple files was not a good idea in the first place. Every time I want to change a variable I have to look into 2-3 files before I find it. Just concatenating the files would keep the related variables together but you could find the setting you want to change with the search function of your editor. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel