/etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

[John Morrison]

> From: Max Bowsher> John Morrison wrote:
> >> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store
> >> for setup.  I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in
> >> /etc/setup.  If we compile a list of things to go in there, I could
> >> write a parser for it (I don't think it merits yacc, like the one
> >> for setup.ini :-D). 
> >> Igor
> > 
> > Think that's a good idea, but you'd only be able to parse it if
> > a) the registry as / mounted and (or)
> > b) the path to install cygwin has been entered :)
> 
> I think that is acceptable.
> 
> > BTW, apart from colours, what would you store?  Whether the users
> > been asked if they want shortcuts?
> 
> Yes, that is a prime example.
> 
> Also, allowing the user to set persistent defaults:
> * Disable antivirus
> * Install Type
> * Proxy settings
> 
> and maybe even the option to skip across pages entirely.

Oh, oh!  Got another!  Disable md5sum check (useful for
internal distribution) for 'install from local'.

J.