Re: Multisync configuration storage in 0.90 and beyond

> GConf currently requires GTK+ and ORBit. I agree that having these
> additional libraries is a downside of using GConf.

	gtk requires the following:
	--------------------------
	libgtk1.2-common
	libc6
	libglib1.2
	xlibs

	Orbit requires the following:
	----------------------------
	libglib2.0-0
	libidl0
	libpopt0

	libxml requires the following:
	-----------------------------
	libc6
	zlib1g

> If we do an XML configuration file then libxml2 is pretty much dependency
> free and it will be more flexible, at the cost of more work for the
> implementation.

	And with the added benefit that *ANY OTHER XML PARSER* can be used
to read, edit, manipulate, and most-importantly, _integrate_ the data stored
within it. This includes C, Perl, Python and otherwise.

d.



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