Re: XML as a standard UNIX config file format (Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn)
According to Robert Woodcock:
> There is no practical reason why every piece of UNIX configuration
> can't be put into a hierarchial tree with its own unique namespace.
IMO, Debian is a Linux distribution, not a Linux decision center.
If upstream maintainers don't choose to use such a database, it's
not Debian's place to impose one.
OTOH, it would be fine to create such a database and see if upstream
maintainers prefer it or not.
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Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
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