INN maintenance and facing reality

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Russ,

>> control.ctl.local is not useful for the encoding support.
>> It was for another thing:  allowing people to override control.ctl without
>> editing it.  This way, they can just download new versions of control.ctl
>> and keep their local changes to control.ctl and their additions elsewhere.
>
> I think this doesn't permit opt-in instead of opt-out, right?  In other
> words, if you want the control.ctl rules but just for a few hierarchies,
> control.ctl.local doesn't help with that particularly smoothly, right?

Yes, because you would have to list *all* your unwanted hierarchies to drop
them.  I do not see how we could do what you would have wanted to achieve
with the current syntax of control.ctl.

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Julien ÉLIE

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