The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Avi Alkalay]

Miloslav Trmac <mitr volny cz> wrote:
> Can all configuration files be _usefully_ represented by a hierarchy?
> The natural format (= format prefered for human editing) for some
> applications uses m4 (sendmail, SELinux policy) or even arbitrary
> PHP/perl code.

Those ones you cited are the perfect examples of how badly designed
these configurations are, because they allow mixing of configuration
elements with pure business logic.

Although this is powerful, the business logic should not be mixed with
configuration elements. Just to cite an example, Unix filesystem
(a.k.a. FHS) is designed with this separation in mind: logic,
configuration, data, logs.

We are getting too philosophic here...

Avi