On Jan 11, 2008 12:28 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Xavier wrote:
Dan McGee wrote:
We are not using a crazy config file. It is basically ini format, which is quite standard, and I don't know a better way to go. All I can say is adding a comment saying "# don't be a bonehead and UNCOMMENT the [repo] headers!" or something.
Right, maybe a little comment would be enough.
Maybe also having the comment before the [repo] line instead of after it would help users noticing the [repo] header better.
Comment is not a bad idea, although I just shake my head every time I see these threads. Editors do have syntax highlighting too, which makes this more obvious. I guess firing up the Gnome text editor as root probably doesn't though. :)
Oh I see, that explains everything. I didn't notice previously, but syntax highlighting indeed helps a lot here. Probably that helped me never doing that mistake, and which is why I find it stupid. So besides the comment, we should also educate the users to use syntax highlighting, not using gnome text editor, and using sudo. Now there are probably many people that would object to these 3 advices, but well :D
Travis- with this body of thoughts in mind, want to put together a patch for the current pacman.conf that may help improve things? -Dan