The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:14 -0800, Shane Stixrud wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Gconf doesn't need gnome. The reverse is true however. The XML format also lets
> > you work with prefences using styles and XML XSLT and the like which is very
> > powerful when working with a large number of systems. Really nobody has
> > scratched the surface of what it can do.
> 
> 
> http://www.libelektra.org/GConf has a whole list of reasons why they feel 
> gconf would be a bad choice (at least in its current form) for the system 
> configuration api.  

If you look through the following, monster thread you'll find that
elektra is a bad choice for the desktop configuration api.  System and
desktop configuration requirements are different.  Also, the author of
that GConf comparison doesn't seem to understand the problems GConf is
attempting to solve which doesn't bode well for it ever displacing
GConf.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg01392.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-August/msg00024.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00039.html

-Toshio
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