2006-03-20 20:41:24 UTC
Who manages the namespace? This is one major problem with elektra which I do not see addressed anywhere (I have not read all of the documentation in detail, so maybe I will see it soon.)
What keeps applications from tromping all over each others' configuration because they both think they own a key? Obviously collisions can be avoided (carefully) but surely there should be some predetermined arbiter of who owns what name.
A good example of this: For a while (some months) the GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT) conflicted badly with giFT, GNU Internet File Transfer. Eventually the two projects resolved this issue; the imager finding tool began calling itself GnuIFT. The only problem in the mean time was some confusion with packages and the name of the binary in /usr/bin. If both had been using elektra at the time it would have been impossible for them to co-exist on the same system without disturbing each others' configuration.
