The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management
Shane Stixrud
shane at geeklords.org
Sun Apr 2 11:04:12 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> But why is the gdm conf file such crap ? Is this because gdm writers had
> not lots of advanced configuration file libs at their disposition ?
>
> No
>
> It's because they consider :
> 1. the conf file is none of the user business
> 2. as a result little thought went in key naming
> 3. and even worse the keys themselves are not stable from release to
> release
>
> How is elektra going to help with this ?
It should be obvious having read http://www.libelektra.org. Anyways with
a hierarchical key/value system like Elektra the solution is simple.
echo "true" >/$CONFIGDIR/system/sw/gdm/xdmcp/enable
Cheers,
Shane
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