It is one of those ideas that sounds good. "Hey we will put all the configs into a database under one tree", Oh wow, that sounds great, sign me up. The main fun

It is one of those ideas that sounds good. "Hey we will put all the configs into a database under one tree", Oh wow, that sounds great, sign me up. The main fundamental problem is now you have two trees, with completely different access patterns. It is also all in the spin. What if I told you over on this side of the OS table we too keep all our configs in this great single tree database, not only that, we keep our data in the same database, everything is accessed using the same simple unified interface, the api has about five calls, it is pretty great. It also has the amazing feature that physically separate devices can be merged into the same tree. Preposterous! some would say. All in the same tree! Why you would get everything muddled up. you must have a separate tree for each device. and a special tree with it's own special access patterns just for configs. But for real, people keep trying to reinvent the registry over in linux land. (cough) gnome (cough) and it is terrible.