linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 4:38 PM +0100 Jonathan Andrews 
<jon at jonshouse.co.uk> wrote:

> Kind of makes me wonder once again why the kernel itself can't handle a
> simple flat file config system ? Maybe Redhat style VARIABLE=value
> pairs. Its pure, its simple, you can edit it as plain text - best of all
> if it exists as a common API without dependency then people would use
> it.

Like programming languages, config languages should provide expressability 
for many problem domains, and that means hierarchy is desirable. 
Indirection would also be a good feature. As would inheritance.