[openbeos] Re: unrar

"Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Like every good application, Expander should have some decent 
> > defaults when run without settings. Ideally, the settings file 
> > should 
> > be created only when your configuration deviates from the defaults.
> Agreed, but the decent defaults might just as well live in the 
> B_SYSTEM_ETC directory, for easier upgrades? Although, I guess that 
> makes the binary dependant on external data which might not be what 
> we 
> want -- I'm not very involved in the details.

No, we definitely want *built-in* defaults, that's the whole idea 
behind defaults. I wouldn't mind having additional rules in some system 
directory, but Expander itself should be useful.

Bye,
   Axel.

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