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Re: The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Subject: Re: The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management
From: Bill Nottingham
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:38:06 -0500
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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