The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

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