config daemon/library for 4.6

[Kok, Auke]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Kok, Auke wrote:
>> Colin Leroy wrote:
>>> On 05 September 2007 at 23h09, mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, 
>>>
>>>> I dunno about how the channels are saved, but if they are separate
>>>> files, you had have enough timestamps (access, modify).
>>> Not necessarily (mounting noatime, for example, is quite common).
>> and, considering atime is currently regarded as "obnoxious" and "obsolete", 
>> should be assumed that everyone mounts all their filesystems by default with 
>> noatime...
> 
> Good point... but regardless, we're not adding an auto-expire-delete 
> time to config entries.  Arbitrarily deleting your config after you 
> haven't used it in a while is a Bad Idea[tm].

absolutely, you probably don't want to delete anything anyway IMHO, it's better 
to provide a "reset" method to the user...

Auke