On 3/30/06, Avi Alkalay <avi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hummm, never heard about puppet. Seems interesting. > The problem I see with this approach is the additional layer that manages > the configuration files syntax. And again: ALL configuration files can be > represented by an hierarchy of key/value pairs. They are different because > they received a considerable amount of syntax fat to make them look nicer to > your human eyes. And what puppet seems to do is try to work with this fat. > What would be really cool is to have a file-system based configuration system, where a config file is mounted into a user space or kernel file-system driver. Then programs could use whatever config file format they like, and as long as there is a translation module for it, people can change/view things with simple echo/cat commands. Like /proc/sys/. Eg: cat 80 > /conf/httpd/Listen Probably just madness, n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
