On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:07 AM Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote:
> Ultimately it's really a design decision: tabular file formats have > the benefit of being a lot more dense, but are neither particularly > extensible nor self-explanatory (as you need to know what each column > means). Unit files are a bit longer to write, but more extensible and > self-explanatory. When we designed this we preferred the latter two > properties over the density property. > Tabular file formats are also much harder to manage with configuration tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. They almost always require some "generator" to handle the composition from multiple sources.
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