diff --git a/conf/example.gitolite.rc b/conf/example.gitolite.rc
index 4821596..d7b18d8 100644
--- a/conf/example.gitolite.rc
+++ b/conf/example.gitolite.rc
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ $GL_NO_DAEMON_NO_GITWEB = 0;
 
 $GL_GITCONFIG_KEYS = "";
 
-#
 # The second choice is to give it a space separated list of settings you
 # consider safe.  (These are actually treated as a set of regular expression
 # patterns, and any one of them must match).  For example:
@@ -190,20 +189,6 @@ $SVNSERVE = "";
 
 $GL_WILDREPOS = 0;
 
-# --------------------------------------
-# ALLOW SETPERMS TO OVERRIDE gitolite.conf
-
-# A user can be given permissions to use a "wildcard created" repo using the
-# "setperms" command run by the creator.  However, if that same user is also
-# explicitly listed in the config file as having a specific permission, and if
-# that permission is different from what was specified using `setperms`, there
-# is a conflict.
-
-# Default behaviour is to let the config file permissions override the
-# "setperms" permissions, but if you want it the other way, set this to 1.
-
-$GL_SETPERMS_OVERRIDES_CONFIG = 0;
-
 # --------------------------------------
 # HOOK CHAINING
 
diff --git a/src/gl-compile-conf b/src/gl-compile-conf
index a6064ee..63a677c 100755
--- a/src/gl-compile-conf
+++ b/src/gl-compile-conf
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
 open STDOUT, ">", "/dev/null" if (@ARGV and shift eq '-q');
 
 # these are set by the "rc" file
-our ($GL_ADMINDIR, $GL_CONF, $GL_KEYDIR, $GL_CONF_COMPILED, $REPO_BASE, $REPO_UMASK, $PROJECTS_LIST, $GIT_PATH, $GL_WILDREPOS, $GL_GITCONFIG_KEYS, $GL_PACKAGE_HOOKS, $GL_SETPERMS_OVERRIDES_CONFIG, $GL_BIG_CONFIG, $GL_NO_DAEMON_NO_GITWEB);
+our ($GL_ADMINDIR, $GL_CONF, $GL_KEYDIR, $GL_CONF_COMPILED, $REPO_BASE, $REPO_UMASK, $PROJECTS_LIST, $GIT_PATH, $GL_WILDREPOS, $GL_GITCONFIG_KEYS, $GL_PACKAGE_HOOKS, $GL_BIG_CONFIG, $GL_NO_DAEMON_NO_GITWEB);
 # and these are set by gitolite.pm
 our ($REPONAME_PATT, $REPOPATT_PATT, $USERNAME_PATT, $AUTH_COMMAND, $AUTH_OPTIONS, $ABRT, $WARN);
 
@@ -227,8 +227,6 @@ sub parse_conf_file
             s/\bCREAT[EO]R\b/~\$creator/g for @users;
             s/\bREADERS\b/\$readers/g for @users;
             s/\bWRITERS\b/\$writers/g for @users;
-            # and double it up if $GL_SETPERMS_OVERRIDES_CONFIG
-            do { s/\$(creator|readers|writers)\b/~\$$1/g for @users } if $GL_SETPERMS_OVERRIDES_CONFIG;
 
             # ok, we can finally populate the %repos hash
             for my $repo (@repos)       # each repo in the current stanza
@@ -378,7 +376,7 @@ my $dumped_data = Data::Dumper->Dump([\%repos], [qw(*repos)]);
 # the dump uses single quotes, but we convert any strings containing $creator,
 # $readers, $writers, to double quoted strings.  A wee bit sneaky, but not too
 # much...
-$dumped_data =~ s/'(?=[^']*\$(?:creator|readers|writers|gl_user))~*(.*?)'/"$1"/g;
+$dumped_data =~ s/'(?=[^']*\$(?:creator|readers|writers|gl_user))~?(.*?)'/"$1"/g;
 print $compiled_fh $dumped_data;
 print $compiled_fh Data::Dumper->Dump([\%groups], [qw(*groups)]) if $GL_BIG_CONFIG and %groups;
 close $compiled_fh or die "$ABRT close compiled-conf failed: $!\n";