> There is no "syntax", it's all just key=value pairs,
This, with the sections, is INI. Duplicate keys included. Loosely defined spec, but INI none the less
> I don't know why you'd be parsing unit files or serializing something else to unit files. Just drop them into place
It's common to store information in a DB, or some other format that is easy to merge/override programmatically. Even configuration management tools like puppet, salt, ansible do this with JSON/YAML
This, with the sections, is INI. Duplicate keys included. Loosely defined spec, but INI none the less
> I don't know why you'd be parsing unit files or serializing something else to unit files. Just drop them into place
It's common to store information in a DB, or some other format that is easy to merge/override programmatically. Even configuration management tools like puppet, salt, ansible do this with JSON/YAML