[Tickets #4747] make configuration files system administrator oriented

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4747
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 Ticket             | 4747
 Created By         | fp at khamsa.net
 Summary            | make configuration files system administrator oriented
 Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | New
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | 
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fp at khamsa.net (2006-12-07 03:14) wrote:

Actual configuration files of horde are quite difficult to be edited and
maintained by using a text editor because in the same file there are too
much configuration line all consecutive (not grouped and/or separated by
\n) and without any comments.

>From the system administrator point of view, that want to maintain by hand
and not using the web configuration interface, multiple separated
configuration files would be really better.

The system administrator managing the application prefer to put his
configuration files clean, well commented and organized and put under a
version control system (like svn or cvs).

For this reason, imho, having multiple configuration files grouped by
their functionality would be a really good enanchments for improving the
maintenance of an horde installations.

I would suggest to have:
conf.php
conf.d/
conf.d/drivers_authentication.php
conf.d/drivers_datatree.php
conf.d/drivers_prefs.php
conf.d/drivers/etc

In this way a system administrator is allowed to maintain it's own
configuration files clean and well separated.

An example of good configurations managed that way is the debian apache2
configuration mode.

Have a look on it, would be a very great improvement for the maintenance
of the system.