David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 02:48 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > > David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > my view is that if we solve > > > it for desktop then the server bits will pan out mostly by itself. > > > > No, the problem spaces are different. > > Doesn't have to be. OK, so configuring a DNS server has to look exactly the same as setting up the theme for my window manager... [...] > > So you advocate not configuring the web server via files, but remotely via > > LDAP? How is that different from "configuration files"? > It's different insofar that since you already serve configuration from > the LDAP server it's next-to-trivial to use the same mechanism to > actually change the configuration. Hence, it's a lot easier to write a > single configuration UI (or whatever) that all distros can use. OK, so you use a generic LDAP browser/editor to change configurations. What makes that better than using $EDITOR on text files? I see massive disadvantages (LDAP becomes a requirement to even start the machine usefully, network breakdowns make everything freeze, one more service to worry about on a server type machine, ...) and the only advantages I see are a single configuration syntax (but the underlying semantics stay as messed up as today (if it doesn't get even worse), so this doesn't help that much) and the possibility to distribute configurations all over the place (which normally is jut a single machine, so not too much of a gain). > In particular we don't need a all-generic system like Elektra here. And > you really want your web server process (e.g. httpd) to know that it > reads configuration from the remote end to fix all the corner cases in a > nice way. I /don't/ want any more complexity in a web server process, it has to remain auditable (and as independent of external sources as possible, for paranoia's sake). > > In any case, this is system-wide, just that your system is larger than one > > box. > Terminology. That's what I call site-wide. Then I really don't get it. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
