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

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 11, 2008 12:28 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger at 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