>> Simple use case: the farmer want's to change some values from the >> default settings (without touching dokuwiki.conf for update safety) >> but wants to allow animals to override them. > > Yes, that scenario was already implied by the question. I would like to know > a specific use case where you'd need that kind of setup. Let's say a custom fetchsize in the farmer and some really big fetchsize in one of the animal. > Or can a farmer forbid things for all animals? That should be possible by the protected files. > If I could configure this in the farmer, it would make things easier. Yes, that should be doable with multiple protected files > But I don't want to disable this option in the farmer itself ... This on the other hand seems not possible currently. >> This could be done with the following setup (following tips:farm) if I >> understand the whole thing correctly. >> >> 'main' => array( >> 'default' => array(DOKU_INC.'conf/dokuwiki.php'), >> 'local' => array(DOKU_INC.'local.php', >> DOKU_CONF.'local.php'), >> 'protected' => array(DOKU_CONF.'local.protected.php'), >> ), >> >> Or am I completely on the wrong track here? > > This is what I would expect as well, but I've never tried it. How does it > behave? And how should it behave? I haven't tried it but from looking at the code it should work. My question still remains if anyone is even using this feature or if we could/should simplify the whole thing. But now that we thought about a few scenarios it seems to make sense the way it is. > Another way (which is possible right now) would be: > Copy the farmer's conf/dokuwiki.php to conf/farmer.php and make your changes > there. Then use this: > > 'main' => array( > 'default' => array(DOKU_INC.'conf/farmer.php'), > 'local' => array(DOKU_CONF.'local.php'), > 'protected' => array(DOKU_CONF.'local.protected.php'), > ), You could even use 'default' => array(DOKU_INC.'conf/dokuwiki.php', DOKU_INC.'conf/farmer.php'), > Which leads to the question you already asked before: Do we need this > flexibility of having an array there? exactly. Andi -- splitbrain.org -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://www.dokuwiki.org/mailinglist