[pacman-dev] Conf file mis-configuration by users

[Eric Belanger]

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
>
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