AW: AW: [gentoo-dev] USE database?

[Sebastian Werner]

GConf for example don't depend on so many libs. I think the only not
system-lib is glib. But this lib is used also by env-update. So no big
problem. Good, the rescue Problem I agree. But it is much faster. Really
cool could it be to store all settings from /etc in binary files. But
that is not your way and not very fsh-compatible - I know. But it could
be a general idea. I don't like to have 100 files which don't follow the
same style. This is not very user-friendly. 

Some other idea is to use the sheme of ksyscoca (like KDE-2.2). It reads
text files and builds a binary cache.

Sebastian

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Von: gentoo-dev-admin@g.o [mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@g.o] Im
Auftrag von Geert Bevin
Gesendet: Montag, 3. Dezember 2001 10:13
An: gentoo-dev@g.o
Betreff: Re: AW: [gentoo-dev] USE database?

Hi,

the idea of a binary registry is not the path to follow imho. All system
critical settings and files should depend on as little libraries as
possible and be editable directly. This is very important in case of
system rescue. Putting these settings inside a database of some sort
really removes much of the needed flexibility and creates a magical
black box called 'system configuration' that no-one really knows and
that pretty soon can only be done through dedicate tools ... very bad.

Geert.

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:41, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I like your idea. I have the same problems with the many variables I
> could set. Some other idea I think could be good is to store the data
> with gconf or something else (a binary registry - like windows but
> better).
>
> Sebastian Werner
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