The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Shane Stixrud shane at geeklords.org
Sun Apr 2 11:28:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le dimanche 02 avril 2006 à 04:04 -0700, Shane Stixrud a écrit :
>>
>> It should be obvious having read http://www.libelektra.org.  Anyways with
>> a hierarchical   key/value system like Elektra the solution is simple.
>
> bzzt. hierarchical was already available when gconf was written (either
> by using XML of java-like hierarchical properties)
>
> That is was not used is not a conf lib problem

This ground as already been covered, gconf was not designed with the whole 
system in mind.  XML has its own complexity especially if we want to be 
able to use UNIX applications to easily edit them.

I am not interested in debating.  I am interested in working on solutions.


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