The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Bill Nottingham]

Shane Stixrud (shane at geeklords.org) said: 
> I see no reason why it would not be possible and desirable to have a 
> plain text compatible configuration file standard that is universal 
> between subsystems, services and applications (besides it being a lot of 
> work).  It seems to me that the complexities of existing configuration 
> tools (authconfig, system-config-samba etc...) are largely due to this 
> same fundamental issue.

Basically, the problem arises in trying to move the inertia of 50 upstream
applications to move to a "new, better" format versus the pain of
trying to consistently maintain such patches for 50 applications outside
of upstream.

Bill