Luke Kanies wrote:
I think editfiles should be essentially replaced with a system that allows
people to manage objects contained in files (hosts in /etc/hosts, services
in /etc/services, filesystems in /etc/fstab, cron jobs in
/var/spool/crontabs/*) as objects, not as lines in a file. The reason
editfiles is so complicated is because it's the wrong approach for complete
management.
I certainly agree that editfiles is not as good a solution as something
that actually understands the file format; however, I take issue with
"replaced". There are still many uses for editfiles other than editing
config files that will be parsed by some program, and there will always
be config files that no "smart" config tool knows how to parse.
I'm all for new and improved functionality, but there is and probably
always will be a use for something like editfiles.
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