Having e.g. /etc/sysconfig files changed to xml formats and having to parse that from init.d shell scripts certainly isn't going to make the system boot faster :-/
For the kinds of things stored in sysconfig, would XML be that much more complex?
Having e.g. /etc/sysconfig files changed to xml formats and having to parse that from init.d shell scripts certainly isn't going to make the system boot faster :-/