The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, John W. Linville wrote:

> Using a syntax that doesn't correspond to the semantics makes things
> harder, not easier.

Can you give an example?  Using a filesystem (i.e. directories, files and 
file contents) as the syntax for an applications semantics does not 
affect/decrease the relationship in any of the cases I can think of.

> I don't know how I got the idea that you wanted to change configuration
> file formats, then use new tools to make them human readable...

I think your idea or at least how you are presenting it is 
incorrect.  This thread started with the idea of changing configuration 
file formats so obviously no one here is saying that is not what is being 
discussed.  However I think your comment on human readable is misleading. 
There is nothing nonhuman readable or editable (using vim, sed etc...) 
about directories, files and plain text file content.


Cheers,
Shane