On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Horst von Brand wrote:
Shane Stixrud <shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Bill Crawford wrote:
[...]
Ah. The "it must all be integrated" straw man. (sigh)
There is no straw man, real advantages and features become available
when configuration data is unified.
If you mean "single format", I might agree (but that is /much/ harder than
it looks, the needs range from a handful of variables to complex structured
"programs" in specialized languages). If you also mean "single repository",
you are way off the deep end (Hint: Single point of failure, no way to
handle alternative configurations, no way to chroot the config, ...)
By unified I mean all configuration syntax is predictable, hierarchical and
standardized.
I also mean multi-repository i.e. Elektra like filesys, dbm etc... My
preferred "repository" would be an on-disk hierarchical directory/file
structure (filesys) where each application/subsystem has a
its own root directory and optional sub-directories.
Read the rest of this thread and you will see all of your concerns have
already been addressed i.e. chroot, alternate configs.
Cheers,
Shane
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