Re: [opensuse-packaging] package looking for maintainer: the AT daemon

El mar 27 nov 2012 20:47:35 CLST, Adam Spiers escribió: ,

i.e. the authors were too lazy to reinvent a wheel, and that the consistent location and format of config files it results in is an advantage which can then be harnessed by things like yast.

Maybe, but I think that there are other factors as well, at the time this concept was invented, systems had little processing power,storage and most importantly..there were no shared libraries so everything had to be a command line argument, a shell script, a pipe etc...