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On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
> Britton Kerin wrote:
>
>>> I don't like the idea of wasting config file space on a check box
>>> being ticked. Can we instead mark the config files with the date stamp
>>> of the freshly run install after that first run.
>
> This would be hidden magic. Behaviour of applications should never depend
> on meta-data of config files. As a user I'd be rather surprised if I a
> swap of otherwise identical config files changed anything. Yes, there are
> exceptions to this rule. But this does not seem to be one of them.

Fair point.

>> Perhaps a well-marked section at
>> the bottom of the config file is a good compromise?
>
> Just don't make it position depended ;-)
>
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