Shane Stixrud shane@geeklords.org wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Bill Crawford wrote:
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Ah. The "it must all be integrated" straw man. (sigh)
There is no straw man, real advantages and features become available when configuration data is unified.
If you mean "single format", I might agree (but that is /much/ harder than it looks, the needs range from a handful of variables to complex structured "programs" in specialized languages). If you also mean "single repository", you are way off the deep end (Hint: Single point of failure, no way to handle alternative configurations, no way to chroot the config, ...)