Re: Templates creation & copying contents of symlinks

Bernard Jungen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:25:34PM +0100, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 2008/5/30 Bernard Jungen <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I installed Linux and ROX on yet another machine, and started to automate initial ROX user configuration, basically creating symlinks to a base config.
> >
> > But when user templates are symlinks to the real files, using those templates just creates symlinks, not copies of file contents, which obviously doesn't make sense in this context.
> 
> What if we allow templates to be inherited? Then you wouldn't need the
> symlinks...

Inherited from system-wide configuration(s)? Yes.

And/or, as a quick fix, just change the object to be copied to be the *target* of the template link?

Bernard.

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