Idea: SkipDirtyOnIdenticalValues WriteConfigFlag for KConfigBase / KConfig

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:16:39AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:02:25PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Hmm, sure. Maybe "don't write if read(<default>) would give <default>"
> is more correct?
>
almost: what if there is currently a local value written which matches
the default? i think it would be deleted, which is not covered by this
version. you can fix that by substituting "write" with Something Else
(TM).

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