[systemd-devel] Adding a Timer section to .service files

[David Timothy Strauss]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:07 AM Lennart Poettering <lennart at 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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