/etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

[Zdenek Sekera]

> Max Bowsher wrote:
> 
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Ok, but we need to decide: Is this going to be user-edited, or 
> setup-edited?
> I.e., there is no point in allowing comments, if they get removed 
> every time
> setup re-writes the file.
> 

You could use 'don't edit below this line' style, maybe.

---Zdenek