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No unified single namespace
No unified single namespace
No unified single API to access configurations
No integration, because configuration is Software's soul
Notes:
Lets face it: Linux/BSD/Unix today are completelly unintegrated.
Why ?
Because the soul or personality of a software are in its configuration files. Softwares, as people, should have affairs, integration, through their personality.
Open Source nature is to produce islands of projects: each one follows its own rules. So we have many config files format, APIs, and no unified namespace.
So a lot of ad-hoc integration must be done in the packaging time. This leads to different Linux distros to have different feels.