[gnome-db] uses of gda

Hello,

   I am new to GDA and I wonder if it would serve the purposes for my
project. I would like some help to decide.
   Please, may you tell if:
- my GDA app needs a daemon to run?
- I can use GDA on non-visual apps? and without depending on visual
apps to config it?
- I can load gda config from a custom location?
- I can load custom providers from a location I choose, instead from
the system's location?
- I need an oracle client installed on my machine to use the oracle provider?

   The reason I am asking all of this is I wouldn't like my app to
depend of the entire gnome system to run. It would be good to be
installed in a gnome environment, but I would like the possibility of
running my app, possibly with custom GDA providers, on an envinronment
where I have just glib and gda lib installed and no XServer.

Regards,
-- 
Marcelo Elias Del Valle
http://mvalle.com