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| 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> |
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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