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Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure
Date 2019-03-13 10:11 -0400
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
Message-ID <q6b327$itl$1@panix2.panix.com> (permalink)
References <0hnglf-alp.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> <slrnq8cq5k.fpn.invalid@eternal-september.org> <q68cti$rqr$1@panix2.panix.com> <vg3ftrr84ah.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi>

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In article <vg3ftrr84ah.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi>, Anssi Saari  <as@sci.fi> wrote:
>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>
>> Basically, there is a split going on in the Linux development community
>> between people who have the traditional Unix philosophy of small modular
>> programs that can be mixed and matched to create complex systems and which
>> use text files for configuration, and people who want Linux to be more like 
>> Windows, with everything in big blocks that use binary configuration files.
>
>So is "everything in big blocks that use binary configuration files"
>supposed to describe systemd? I don't see how. Systemd uses text based
>configuration files as far as I know. I've written a few but I'm by no
>means an expert on systemd.

systemd and gnome3 are good examples of big monolithic chunks of code that
do everything, are linked to everything.  Systemd does tend to use text-based
unit files instead of XML files or proprietary binary files, though.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 20:42 -0400
  Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Héctor Abreu <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-11 13:54 +0000
    Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-12 09:41 -0400
      Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 18:46 +0000
        Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-13 02:01 -0300
      Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-03-13 12:19 +0200
        Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:11 -0400
      Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:08 +0000

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