Florian La Roche laroche@redhat.com wrote:
(oh, right semantics is not your problem, you don't even do typing/schemas but I'm sorry 90% of unix conf woes are semantics only).
I think this is pointing at a key item: apps apply too much semantics on how they read config settings. Maybe common ways could be worked out if bigger projects would cooperate on a common lib/infrastructure for this?
The whole idea of configuration /is/ to provide semantics.