[Tickets #11072] Re: Set system configuration in Horde_Role

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/11072
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  Ticket             | 11072
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | Set system configuration in Horde_Role
  Queue              | Horde Base
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
-State              | Assigned
+State              | Stalled
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          | 5
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Jan Schneider, Horde Developers
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2012-10-24 19:04) wrote:

Thinking more about this, I don't think this really makes sense or  
gets us anywhere. You cannot force PEAR to only use a single  
configuration file, it always uses both the system and user  
configuration.
The reason to re-consider the configuration storage for horde_role was  
to avoid people getting confused (or confusing their PEAR install) if  
using different users (and thus different user configurations) with  
PEAR. Storing horde_dir in the system configuration would help with  
that, because it made the horde_dir configuration available to everyone.
OTOH the user configuration takes precedence over the system  
configuration, which means it's possible to have different horde_dir  
configurations in the user and system configuration which would  
probably cause even more havoc. Better let PEAR installation fail  
because horde_dir isn't set, than having it succeed but installing  
into an incorrect directory.
There might be more pros and cons, but for now this seems too risky to change.