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		ams6110 on Nov 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Don't Need The real benefit is that they are configured with text files, not a monolithic inscrutable system "registry."

enraged_camel on Nov 11, 2016 [–]

This is about how the user interacts with the configuration process, not where the configuration variables are stored.

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