Idea: SkipDirtyOnIdenticalValues WriteConfigFlag for KConfigBase / KConfig

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:02:25PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> writeEntry(value) -- always writes if empty, don't set dirty if  
> unchanged (same as current behavior I think, sans gratuitous dirtying?)
>
> writeEntry(value, default) -- don't write if current is empty and  
> value==default, otherwise as above
>
... default obviously being cascaded with the system configs.
makes sense.

> The latter is especially needed because the default may not be constant
>
kconfig cannot know the hard-coded default by other means anyway, so
there is no "especially".

> (e.g. kate defaults are related to the current system color scheme)
>
as you note yourself, the kate example is pretty pointless due to the
need to make the writeout decision en block. ;)

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