[OT] Debian mailinglists [was: RE: Debian or Ubuntu?]

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:30 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Nobody, at any point in this thread, has argued against "text file based
> configs".  I've argued against editing them with a text editor

What the heck is the advantage of text file-based configs supposed to be
if nobody is allowed to touch them with an editor? Might just as well be
binary blobs then.