The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Mar 28 10:35:34 UTC 2006


Le Mar 28 mars 2006 10:52, sean a écrit :

> The original post by Shane mentioned the limitations of sed when trying to
> modify config files.  My notion was of something slightly smarter than
> sed that would have no idea of valid key names or values.  Just something,
> that could parse a config file and spit out a slightly modified version.

You already have a boatload of XML tools which can do this sanely and safely.
The problem is not in the infrastructure, but people taking time to lay
out a human-friendly XML schema (as fontconfig did)

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Nicolas Mailhot




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