From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from lark.theleaf.office (cable-213-132-142-63.upc.chello.be [213.132.142.63]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BCB21898A for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 04:13:15 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 17504 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 10:11:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gentoo.theleaf.office) (10.1.1.7) by 10.1.1.1 with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 10:11:41 -0000 Subject: Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-dev] USE database? From: Geert Bevin To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <000101c17be1$a0546cb0$6400a8c0@server> References: <000101c17be1$a0546cb0$6400a8c0@server> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.99.2 (Preview Release) Date: 03 Dec 2001 11:12:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1007374327.1251.0.camel@gentoo.theleaf.office> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1303aa6f-7370-40b0-9b52-dd4dd78c902e X-Archives-Hash: 6c7c2a869614d84f7fb6f2434ef23566 On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 11:02, Sebastian Werner wrote: > GConf for example don't depend on so many libs. I think the only not > system-lib is glib. But this lib is used also by env-update. So no big > problem. Good, the rescue Problem I agree. But it is much faster. Really Does it? To my knowledge env-update relies on nothing else but bash and python, note that this it a statically compiled version of python which doesn't need any system libs. Maybe I'm overlooking something though. > cool could it be to store all settings from /etc in binary files. But > that is not your way and not very fsh-compatible - I know. But it could > be a general idea. I don't like to have 100 files which don't follow the > same style. This is not very user-friendly. How could you possible unify the style of all the configuration files? This means that you'd have to track all the config formats of all libraries and applications together with their options and write a unified wrapper interface on top of them. I really can't see the benefit of that, and I don't dare to imagine the sheer nightmare of trying to maintain and update this. > Some other idea is to use the sheme of ksyscoca (like KDE-2.2). It reads > text files and builds a binary cache. > > Sebastian -- Geert Bevin the Leaf sprl/bvba "Use what you need" Pierre Theunisstraat 1/47 http://www.theleaf.be 1030 Brussels gbevin@theleaf.be Tel & Fax +32 2 241 19 98