Why Elektra is the wrong approach (Was Re: The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management)
Shane Stixrud
shane at geeklords.org
Mon Apr 3 06:17:12 UTC 2006
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:
> It seems that Elektra simply wants to remap the configuration file for a
> piece "software" into a hierarchical key/value database and I think that's
> missing the point entirely. First of all you got to ask yourself whether
> there should be a configuration of said piece of software in the first place.
> If you think really hard about it you will find that for most pieces of
> software this is false - you really don't want any configuration files...
> Hence you really don't want nor need Elektra.
Software without configuration options what a novel idea... In all
seriousness that day will come long after the paperless bathroom....
Cheers,
Shane
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