The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Shane Stixrud shane at geeklords.org
Mon Mar 27 21:33:17 UTC 2006


On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Leszek Matok wrote:

> Dnia 27-03-2006, pon o godzinie 13:08 -0800, Shane Stixrud napisaÿÿ(a):
>>> No matter what you come up with though, it will be many years before
>>> you see wide spread adoption.   If anything, you might consider a
>>> project to create a system-wide config editor that knows all
>>> the different formats etc and provides a consistent CLI/GUI
>>> interface.
>> Projects already exist http://www.libelektra.org/Main_Page for example.
>
> No, this concentrates on creating a single API for many programs to
> store their configs. Parent meant something understanding currently
> existent configuration formats. Something like that exists, too:
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
>

The above project has the concept of "backends" that can be made to 
understand specific configuration formats.  There is an example where 
Xorg.conf can be imported and exported on demand.

http://www.libelektra.org/Backends



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