Keep track of theme edits for future themes?

[Fustrate]

I was just looking at a thread in which someone was worried that they would have to manually install all of their mods if they installed a new theme, and I thought that maybe we could help with this.

Here goes... have an XML file named theme-edits.xml in the /Packages/ folder, and store each installed modification's theme edits in there in a somewhat modified format from the package-info.xml files:

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<modification name="Advanced Reputation System">
    <file name="index.template.php">
        ...
    </file>
</modification>

<modification name="Referrals Mod">
    ...
</modification>

it's just a mockup, but I think it would be worthwhile for this type of situation to have all of the currently installed theme edits available in one file so that forum owners don't have to dig around in each package to find instructions, and potentially miss some. It would only be modified when a new mod is installed/uninstalled, and the same name= as is in the package's <name> tag.

At first I thought it should be a mod, but I have a nagging feeling that it would only be found and installed after they need the instructions, and not before. Opinions? I can write the code if you want me to, it wouldn't take too long.

[TheDisturbedOne]

That sounds like a good idea.