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Re: [PLUG] apt-get / rpm freshmeat article
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At 12:19 PM -0400 9/18/00, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
Chew on
this: Windows doesn't have text config files, not because it has a GUI
interface, but because a design decision was made to not have text files
and only use the GUI interface.
Windows has WORSE "text" config file problems than Linux does
(IMHO). Combine the proliferation of ".ini" files (which are the
actual text config files), with that evil Registry (which is really
just a (poorly) structured hierarchical database of text) and look at
the mess you get!
Leonard
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