Comment 4 for bug 154459

I have no idea why this is marked as a duplicate! It’s more that this is one of the bugs that must be fixed if #1 is to be fixed.

I agree that something must be done about this process. I’m wary of attempting to divide users into streams, asking them at the beginning if they want “easy” or “advanced,” a bizarre moment of rating yourself without much reference to go on. But, yes, the “change old configuration file?” window needs to be vastly friendlier. At the very least, it needs something along the lines of, “if you don’t know what to do, choose this option...”

In the longer term, perhaps we really need to establish that packages should have a “merge” functionality for their configuration file upgrades, where it will generate a new configuration file taking your previous changes into account. Perhaps a standardized library would be needed for this. Hmmm...