[mythtv-users] On the verge of giving up
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Mon Sep 24 18:29:25 UTC 2007
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Brett Kosinski wrote:
>> Personally, I'd love to do away with the myriad config files and
>> formats
>> littered all over my machine. Heck, it could be something as
>> simple as
>> an API that layered over a standard filesystem, producing text-based
>> configuration files of a known format, using a well-understood
>> directory
>> structure. This makes things user-editable, scalable, consistent,
>> and
>> transparent. It'll never happen, but it's a nice dream. :)
>>
> I've actually seen something like that on Solaris. A while back,
> can't remember
> the details, but I was impressed by how easy it made configuring
> the godawful
> screwed-up megalithic behemoth of a <deleted> system I had to
> install and
> maintain :)
Isn't this what Sendmail is trying to do with m4?
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