proposal: new repository for configuration data

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 18:19:07 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> right now we have in the plasma-mobile repository a config/ subdirectory.
> 
> these files need customization for various OS and device targets. they
> also,  however, share common settings. plasmarc, for instance, will have
> common settings for many (most? all?) plasma active builds, but also
> contain specializations for different targets.
> 
> carrying patches for those differentiations is not optimal, particularly as
> you  are going to want to keep them revisioned anyways. one possible answer
> is "make a branch for the device in plasma-mobile", but this starts to make
> it tempting to make all sorts of target-specific changes in the code which
> is almost always not what we want.
> 
> so i created a new repository that only contains the config files and given
> them  some structure. i've also added a couple of branches to show what
> sorts of things are possible, such as including xorg config. (both branches
> are actually real-world useful as well
> 
> you can get it with:
> 
>         git clone kde:scratch/aseigo/plasma-mobile-config
> 
> it has all the history of plasma-mobile/config, of course. if there is 
> consensus on this, then i'd like to move this repository alongside plasma-
> mobile and remove the config/ dir from the plasma-mobile repository.

Good idea, +1. :)
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sebas

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