On Tue 09 Apr 2019 at 20:25:20 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 14:58:22 -0400 Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >OK - good to know. Somehow I'd got the impression that systemd was > >moving to a windows registry type thing for config data instead of > > I've no idea about that. I don't think systemd is really relevant to > the topic under discussion here, though. > > >keeping it in plain text files. > > For some years now, Grub (well, Grub2) has used a binary format for > configs.
Really, which ones? I can't find any. > Lilo has for done so for even longer, of course. Mozilla > stores much of its application and config data in SQlite databases, as do > other organisations. Ever more things are making use of XML in a > similar way. Obviously, that's still human readable(1). > > (1) Well, that is to say, humans can view it in a text editor rather > than a binary file viewer/editor. Whether the content makes any sense to > the reader is another matter entirely, of course. :-) Cheers, David.
