Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] /etc/hosts and the parade

[jacob helixcode com (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman)]

Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@helixcode.com> writes:

> > Can the backend people get the /etc/hosts parsing to accept lines that
> > are valid hosts lines except that they are commented out?
> > 
> > Like these:
> > 
> > #209.116.70.70	cvs.gnome.org
> > #209.116.70.71	mail.gnome.org
> 
> I can make it do like with other config files - i.e. keep comments when
> writing the file.

It does this already :)

> Or would you rather have it do something else, like passing on commented-out
> hosts to the frontend, with an enabled/disabled attribute?

This is the intention.

Jacob
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