On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 11:49 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, December 8, 2023 11:23:29 AM EST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 
> wrote:
> > But yeah, there'll always be a few "special" files. But that's fine,
> > we have mechanisms to handle those. For the other 99%, we should
> > move them out of /etc.
> 
> The problem is that there would need to be a standard that all upstream 
> authors agree on. There are some like systemd which have a [SECTION_NAME] 
> followed by config items. Others do not make sections. What if the config is 
> in 
> yaml, json, or XML? How can you see the end result? We would need to have a 
> standard library that everyone can use. From that, we need a utility to 
> compile the actual configuration that would be consumed by the service so we 
> can inspect it during troubleshooting. 

Eh? What does the format of the files have to do with where they live?

I don't see any reason we can have heterodox config file formats in
/etc, but not in /usr. (Indeed, practically speaking, we already have
lots of different formats in both places).
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