RE: GNOME registry

[Rowan van der Molen <bigsmoke usa net>]

At 09:45 31-12-98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 08:13 AM 12/31/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>I have played with Linuxconf. It uses add in modules for each program you
>>want to configure.
>>I think it should be the other way around. The program, through the use of a
>>library or somthing, should save its config info in what ever fassion the
>>sysadmin wants to. 
>
>This is where corba would be usefull. A general interface for configuration 
>information could store config information in text (ala rc.d) for techie
users
>or a db for non-techie users. The program should never have to worry about 
>it. 
>
Yeah, it would be cool to have such a level of abstraction that you can
change 
the way config files are written so that you can easilly switch to some
sort of
new fancy standard when someone gets the idea :-)

>But on the other hand, it should also provide a way for a configuration
manager
>to "bit-twidle" with configurations that it stores in unique ways (sendmail
>rules,
>for example). This could also be done thruy corba.
>
>
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