The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, 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.  A few example it has a lot more library dependencies, was 
> not designed with a global namespace in mind, "GConf storage backend uses XML 
> files, which are big, take long time and system resources to parse or 
> update.", Eletkra has the concepts of "backends" of which gconf is one.

Um, GConf supports several backends as well. Can't argue about the 
dependencies.. just had a look at rpm -q --requires GConf2 - oh puke.
Building another layer on top of that gunk isn't going to help cutting 
down the dependencies though :)

 	- Panu -