On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:35 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
I didn't say DConf, or the current GConf implementations were
good, I
said that one-small-file-per-config-option is absolutely unworkable.
What's this /proc/sys/ thing...
Yes, current filesystems are not optimized for lots of small files. But
absolutely unworkable? That's absurd.
As for propagating new defaults, or mandatory options (like GConf is
able to do), I don't see how a one-file-per-option would solve that
problem.
You solve that problem the way it's been done for decades. Config files
in /etc/ that override anything the user sets. The on-disk format isn't
even relevant to this particular problem.