Le Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 01:31:39PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen écrivait: > Ok, but remember that configuration databases may not exist. They may be an > LDAP/HTTP servers.
That's not a problem. The config file can specify some 'special' drivers like explained in Wichert's proposal... > Still, I regard this stuff as extra baggage, requiring more work on the part > of the developer to supply the information and more storage space. But having a configuration system that does not use meta-datas would not do much more than the actual gnome-config library, so I would'nt see the need of rewriting it. The only[1] benefit is the possibility to access to a distributed configuration database. > I don't think debian-admintool is an appropriate forum since this is a subset > of debian-admintool but is significant, ie. we should have non-debian folks > involved in my opinion and they probably won't be interested in other topics > relating to specifically to debian-admintool. -admintool is not really a big list with huge amount of mails but I don't care, we could create a new list... Cheers, [1] I said only but it's still a must-have. :) -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/