[digikam] [Bug 377587] The --database-directory argument should also be the location of the digikamrc file when used

[Simon]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377587

--- Comment #6 from Simon <freisim93 at gmail.com> ---
Below are three emails concerning this issue posted to the developer mailing
list. Apparently I wrote quite a few comments to bugs by email which never
reached the actual bug. Sorry if I spammed the mailing list with tries to get
it to work (I didn't).

On 24/03/17 04:32, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Simon,
>
> I agree with Andrew. Point 2/ is more logic in this scénario.
>
> Note : Why this story is not fully in bugzilla file ? Somebody has
> responded directly by mail to the bugzilla notification and the file is not
> updated as 377587 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377587> comments...
>
> I recommend to backport missing comments in bugzilla to not lost full
> story.
>
> Gilles
>
>
>
> 2017-03-24 1:00 GMT+01:00 Andrew Goodbody <ajg02 at elfringham.co.uk>:
>
>> My vote is for 2) - always do what you're told and only what you're told.
>> Give as much control to the user as possible, do not do unexpected things.
>> Using a different config and/or creating a new one is very unexpected. I
>> see no reason to assume the config would be colocated with the database,
>> that's a very strange idea.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On 23/03/17 11:48, Simon Frei wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the clarification, I get your scenario now. So it is a
>>> trade-off between no side-effects and data safety. I still think that a
>>> user using the command line options should be aware of the difference
>>> between config and database and therefore be in charge of using
>>> sensible/safe options. However planning for the DAU is also a good idea.
>>>
>>> I would like to hear what Gilles/Maik/Mario/... think about this.
>>> Recap: The question is which of these options is favourable (arguments
>>> in the comments above):
>>> 1. Set config to the same directory as --database-directory. If no
>>> config file exists there, create a new one/copy over the default one
>>> (still respecting --config if given).
>>> 2. Always use the default config unless --config is given, also with
>>> --database-directory.
>>>
>>>
>>>

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