>its own ideas of how configuration files should be parsed, services installed/enabled/run, and generally a huge snowflake pile of redundant functionality. Wou

>its own ideas of how configuration files should be parsed, services installed/enabled/run, and generally a huge snowflake pile of redundant functionality. Wouldn't there have been a different possible way of tackling this issue tho? Some framework group setting a standard for config file parsing, etc and then compiling a list of component(s) that fit these definitions?