The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 15:50:08 UTC 2006


On Thursday 30 March 2006 04:53, Avi Alkalay wrote:

> Hummm, never heard about puppet. Seems interesting.
> The problem I see with this approach is the additional layer that manages
> the configuration files syntax. And again: ALL configuration files can be
> represented by an hierarchy of key/value pairs. They are different because
> they received a considerable amount of syntax fat to make them look nicer
> to your human eyes. And what puppet seems to do is try to work with this
> fat.
>
> Elektra completely removes that fat and reduces the configuration
> parameters to what they really are: key/value pairs.

Dunno where you got this obsession, but just because you can represent data as 
"key/value pairs" doesn't mean that's always the best layout.

There's a reason why programs aren't written for the old Turing Machine, and 
that's that however well it might be able to represent any possible program, 
it's incredibly verbose.

The examples which have appeared in this thread have all made things *less* 
clear afaics.

Bill"somewhat sick of this thread but suspecting if people don't reply the 
lunatics will end up running the asylum"Crawford.




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