Collection Inheritance

[xeroplz]

Hello, thanks for all of your hard work on Penumbra!

As someone with quite a few collections for friends, and a large number of mods installed with it as well, I have found it increasingly frustrating to add new mods or modify default configurations for them (and have it affect my friends as well).

Currently, if i have 5 friends with their own collections and I want to install a new mod & have it apply to those friends as well, I must reconfigure that mod 5 times over after I already do it on my default collection. I have to enable the mod in each of their collections, and set the mod configurations to the same values each time. Forced collection is a niche solution; it doesn't work if I have friends that have specific mods in my default list disabled instead. Deleting their collection and copying the default collection would force me to redo that friend's entire collection as well, which would take even more time.

To combat this, I would like to propose the idea of collection inheritance. Having collections inherit settings from either the "None" or "Default" collections as a base and placing specific mods from the "Default" mod list into your character-specific collections would remove the redundancy that is currently present. There would be no reconfiguring a mod 5 times over unless absolutely intentional. If I installed a new mod for myself and my friends with no intention of customizing it differently for all of us, I could enable it in the default collection and leave it at that.

For a simple example of this idea, say I have 20 mods installed & enabled on Penumbra, and I have them all configured for the Default collection. I make a collection for my friend, and choose 3 of those mods to put in their collection. I modify the configuration of 2 of them, and disable 1 of them. I set the collection to inherit from the "Default" collection. With just 3 mods in their collection, they will still load the 17 unchanged mods from the default collection, and those 3 mods in their collection with new settings will override the default collection's settings instead. If I set the collection to inherit from "None" instead of "Default," those 3 mods would be the only mods loaded (effectively 2, since one of them is disabled).

After typing this I realize it's a big wall of text, but I wanted to be as articulate as possible so I apologize.
I hope this is a good idea and I thank you guys again for all of your hard work!