Re: GConf vs. bonobo-config

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, ERDI Gergo wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > Users frequently don't want this. Administrartor frequently do want this
> > or even won't / can't look at things that don't provide this.
> > 
> > Not providing this isn't *really* an option.
> 
> But this might give a false sense of security -- when in fact, you can
> always recompile your applications  not to use the defaults forced by the
> system.
> 

Uhhh... No. In fact, recompiled programs (or programs staticly linked
against a modified gconf) are totally out of the scope of what a standard
coniguration library should provide. 

Enforcing the use of known good libraries/programs is a totally separate
issue.

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> 

	Sander

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