The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Avi Alkalay]

Alan Cox wrote:
> Gconf doesn't need gnome. The reverse is true however. The XML format also lets

Thats true. But the problem is GConf is too many dependencies, and a
design oriented to the desktop only. So the idea is to keep GConf, but
attach to it a backend capable of doing global configurations, as
Elektra.


> 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.

XML is good for external representation of data, but not for storage.
XML storage makes GConf damn slow.

Avi