Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:20:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

One issue, however, is that an application can search a number of paths
to find a configuration: /etc/, /usr/share, /usr/lib, and the user's
HOME or HOME/.config or HOME/.local.
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I think it's more so the sysadmin can define a global default if the
users haven't?

You want a hierarchy of config levels, where the highest precedence goes
to the level that is easiest for the user to change. From top:

* command-line option
* environment variable
* user config file in ~/.config, maybe ~/.local
* system config file in /etc
* installation-default config in /usr/local/share
* distro-default config in /usr/share
* hard-coded