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Shane Stixrud (shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> I see no reason why it would not be possible and desirable to have a
> plain text compatible configuration file standard that is universal
> between subsystems, services and applications (besides it being a lot of
> work). It seems to me that the complexities of existing configuration
> tools (authconfig, system-config-samba etc...) are largely due to this
> same fundamental issue.
Basically, the problem arises in trying to move the inertia of 50 upstream
applications to move to a "new, better" format versus the pain of
trying to consistently maintain such patches for 50 applications outside
of upstream.
Bill
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