The benefits of Elektra will be felt only when configurations like those under /etc will move into it. It is expected that this will take time, but awareness should be raised in the community to speed the process.
Experienced Unix sysadmins seem (and were expected to be) sceptical about a key-value database on Linux, even when the Elektra Initiative tries to address other OSes registry's problems (centralization, security, consistency). But it is a truly required OS component from a good architecture perspective, and it can solve most of the Linux software integration issues, when adopted.
Elektra is expected to be adopted by developers of high-level software applications. Then by some Linux distribution specific admin tools, like redhat-config-network or YaST, then finally by main OS programs and libraries, like /sbin/init, PAM, /bin/mount, etc.
Check the patches we are already writing.
