The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Avi Alkalay avi at unix.sh
Thu Mar 30 00:29:30 UTC 2006


In addition to the words bellow, the "D" on D-Conf comes from the "Desktop"
word, which means D-Conf is a desktop-oriented wannabe-project. You won´t be
able to standarize configuration for say named, dhcpd, resolver, sysctl,
modprobe, /sbin/init, network configurations, etc etc etc with it.

On 3/28/06, Shane Stixrud <shane at geeklords.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
> > would have discovered the D-Conf spec and related discussion and
> > followed up on it to see how its impacting upstream GConf development.
> > All of which happens outside the scope of fedora.
>
> "D-Conf generated a long discussion on FreeDesktop.org's XDG mailling
> list. Its objective is to standarize configuration across desktop
> frameworks like Gnome and KDE, so no focus is being devoted to global
> non-desktop system configurations.
>
> It was very difficult to find the D-Conf website (not found in the end),
> and seems that all is available is that XDG discussion, and a wiki page
> containing analisys of what is required, and development directions.
> Nothing else.
>
> Conclusion: D-Conf is vaporware. "
>
> source: http://www.libelektra.org/D-Conf
>
> I hope you are right and D-conf is making a difference, that seems to be
> debatable however.  Btw by all means do not be nice on my account, I enjoy
> raw personality :).
>
> Cheers,
> Shane
>
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