[mpeters devel ~]$ ls -l /etc/kdb/system/init/1/ |head -5 total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Oct 23 05:27 action -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Oct 23 05:27 process -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Oct 23 05:27 runlevels [mpeters devel ~]$ cat /etc/kdb/system/init/1/action RG002 40 <DATA> respawn
thats just cryptic nonsense. i dont want such a config system on my box.
I get the feeling that many people are turned off to Elektra just because they have had a bad experience with a particular implementation of a registry in an operating system that shall remain nameless.gconf is not much better than the m$ registry imho.
Before you just blindly reject what is a good thing, log into gnome, and launch an application called gconf-editor.
There you have it - a registry in use in Linux that has been in use in Linux for quite some time quite succesfully. gconf isn't quite as robust as elektra because it uses a daemon which does present a single point of failure, but it is a registry.
to improve the management of linux i would like to see a standard for config files (FHS-like). a guide for programmers.