The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

[Shane Stixrud]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

>
> 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.

If I am not mistaken since that time elektra has developed its backends so 
that they can import/modify/export data from other systems like gconf so 
that gnome can continue to depend on gconf while users/admins can have a 
single method of modifying data.

In either case Elektra may very well not be the correct solution, but a 
technical solution does exist, it may just not of been found/developed 
yet.  There is a problem to be solved here, I haven't heard anyone argue 
seriously to the contrary and this is by no means a new problem.  The 
purpose of my original post was to start discussion on how that should 
would look and how we are going to get there in a realistic and reasonable 
way.

Shane.