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Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains



On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:48:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > https://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2012/11/21/194431
> > 
> > There is a rather bad smell regarding all this. 
> 
> None of the systemd advocates ever mentioned for example the real
> reason why it uses such an ugly configuration syntax and Windoze
> format files.                                            ^^^^^^^

The:

[crap]
foo = bar

format for config files is widely despised.  And this is not a systemd
issue, even git uses that crap instead of something better like xml,
or simpler, like the hierarchical format used by apt that resembles
C++ classes.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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