linux registry (no, not that again!)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug  4, 2004, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> --On Monday, August 02, 2004 2:46 AM -0300 Alexandre Oliva
> <aoliva at redhat.com> wrote:

>> Having e.g. /etc/sysconfig files changed to xml formats and having to
>> parse that from init.d shell scripts certainly isn't going to make the
>> system boot faster :-/

> For the kinds of things stored in sysconfig, would XML be that much
> more complex?

How do you obtain the equivalent of `. /etc/sysconfig/whatever' from
whatever.xml?

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