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On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

>=20
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
>> You people are evil. I hope you stick to writing gui environments.
>=20
> And that, in one sentence, is why FreeBSD STILL has no generalized =
preference API.  Just a bucket of freeform and otherwise disassociated =
bits in /etc.  ;-)

You don't have to suck and/or want a GUI environment to want a unified =
preference API.

Warner