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Re: [PLUG] apt-get / rpm freshmeat article
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At 6:53 PM -0400 9/18/00, mg wrote:
As frontends get
more and more popular the underlying configuration structures evolve
towards something more easily maintained by a piece of software and less
easily by a human. The windows registry is a good example of this. Sure
you could hack up the registry by hand but it would be a real
headache. That's the point I was getting at.
And that's a very good point (with the Registry being a
perfect example!). That's one thing that I give Apple a lot of
credit for with their new Mac OS X. They've standardized all their
config files into XML - so that it is both user and software editable.
Leonard
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