On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > All drakxtools are stateless, they always start with no configuration
> > defined, making very difficult to adjust a running configuration. You have
> > to remember exactly what you entered last time, which is rather easy for
> > mouse setting, but far less for X configuration :-)
> > Capacity to read present configuration, either from plain configuration
> > files, or from specific tool file, would be a great improvement.
>
> Definitely not from a specific tool file - this would cause hand-edited
> changes to the config files to be lost when the drakxtools were used.
>
> Michael
>
Every tool must analyze current configuration and start with it. In no way
should specific file be used. I know at least one such case, when system
configuration tool used own database (that was supposed to be synced to
real configuration) - it was real pain in the ...
-andrej
