<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:07 AM Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ultimately it's really a design decision: tabular file formats have<br>
the benefit of being a lot more dense, but are neither particularly<br>
extensible nor self-explanatory (as you need to know what each column<br>
means). Unit files are a bit longer to write, but more extensible and<br>
self-explanatory. When we designed this we preferred the latter two<br>
properties over the density property.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div>