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Re: a debconf backend db finally...



Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:51:11PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > This is a fairly simple configuration file. It would look
> > pretty horrendous in xml imho.
> 
> What's horrendous about the following?

For XML-dislikers, the whole syntax is horrendous.
For XML-likers, it's perfectly natural.

Don't let us go down the XML flamewar, please.  XML-people should
accept that there are others who dislike XML syntax, and that XML
isn't the Final Answer to everything.  XML is useful, but not
everyone has to use it everywhere.

        -- Jorgen, afraid to start a flamewar with this call
                   not to star a flamewar :(

-- 
Jorgen Schaefer
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
forcer@debian.org



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