On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:21, Chris Hanson wrote: > > I'd rather fix this properly; what you suggest is a workaround. What > I consider a proper fix is to redefine the configuration files so that > they can be parsed. I have learned, the hard way, that using shell > scripts for configuration files is a bad idea.
That's true, it's definitely a workaround. The way I did it in fontconfig is the way I think it should be done in packages which can't (or can't easily) losslessly parse their configuration files.
