[rfk-dev] FEATURE? deduplication of NKI?

David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Thu Nov 8 18:44:26 PST 2012


On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Peter A. H. Peterson wrote:

> If the main source dir is (e.g.) /usr/share/robotfindskitten, and it
> also looks in ~/.robotfindskitten, should the code automatically
> deduplicate identical NKI (e.g., if the user has copied the
> vanilla.nki file and only added to it)? Or is this hand-holding we're
> not interested in doing?
>
> Discuss.

In the interest of keeping this program simple and sweet, I don't think 
this is a good idea.  A warning in the manpage about identical NKIs and 
some command line stuff to accomplish deduplication should suffice.

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David Griffith
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