Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> But they also seem to be trending away from single static config files shared
> by multiple packages that would require scripting to merge - for instance the
> Linux pam.d instead of Solaris's pam.conf, so packages can just drop in PAM
> configuration files without scripting, or the fontpath.d that Fedora invented,
> and we use also now, so we don't have to do mkfontdir or edit the font path
> in font package installation.

This is great, but only works where the software's author has written a 
custom parser to support it.

An increasing amount of code is distributed with the configuration in 
XML, which is used when people explicitly want to avoid doing that.

Are there any plans to allow IPS to intelligently cope with XML files 
whilst avoiding the need for scripting?

Patrick
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