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Re: [RFC] GSoC status update (config API improvements)

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Jul 29, 2014, 13:11 UTC
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Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> writes:
> a> Unsetting previously set values
> Local config files can be used to unset config values previously set in system
> files. The user may not have the privilege to touch the system files so he can
> leverage the new API to unset the previously set values.

I had totally forgotten about this, but this was the initial motivation to write a config cache, so it would be a good conclusion for your project.

Thanks to the patches you already wrote, the feature went from "impossible to implement given the design" to "fairly straightforward to implement" :-).

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  1. Tanay AbhraJul 29, 2014
  2. Matthieu MoyJul 29, 2014

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