The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 3/28/06, Shane Stixrud <shane at geeklords.org> wrote:
> I dunno if Elektra is the right solution, but they seem to have some good
> arguments.

whether or not elektra is the right solution will be decided by
whether or not individual upstream software projects start working
towards integrating support for elektra as their default configuration
scheme.  This sort of technology revolution is not going to be
crowbarred into applications by Fedora or any sane distributor that
needs to worry about keeping in sync with upstream project
developements.  If you can't convince upstream developers to build in
support, a think its pretty ludicrious to be having a discussion about
it at the distributor level with any expectation a distributor like
fedora to do all the work downstream to integrate electra specific
patches.   The elektra developers might believe they've got the best
idea for a technology since sliced bread... but what existing projects
with an active codebase are actually attempting to integrate support
for this concept into their application?

And why are they bothering with SysVinit at all... when there are a
chorus of voices whoaare calling for SysVinit to be shot in the head. 
If electra were smart they'd be in communication with developers of a
few of the up and coming SysVinit replacements... cough initng
cough... and get elektra support buried deep into the guts of those
projects so elektra gets dragged in because it would take too much
work to remove.

-jef"can someone point me to the upstream xorg discussion where the
elektra people have submitted their patches for inclusion into the
mainline xorg codebase?"spaleta