[Gllug] ObNaive: Why don't Linux systems get package database rot? Or do they?

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Peter Childs murmured woefully:
> Look at GConf its just as unstable as the windows registry. If I
> switch it on on my machine it freezes instantly.

This *must* be a kernel bug or hardware problem. There's just
no way unprivileged userspace code can do that (well, perhaps
it can run you out of memory and thrash you to death, but that's
not an instant freeze, it's a slow bog down.)

>                                                  It does weid
> unfavanble things to the desktops at work so its switched off.

How do you do that without breaking GNOME?

>                                                  > I would
> like it because then I could use nautaulus to put icons on the
> desktops but I tend to just ovoide Gnome software.....

KDE can do it too, and uses textual config files, hint hint :)

(well, it sort of does. Because parsing them is quite expensive
it spots when you change them and turns them into a binary lump
optimized for high-speed access on the fly. Said binary lump is
transient and lives under /var/tmp...)

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 still not really what one wanted.' --- jdev
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