Bug#258704: gnome-desktop-environment: gconf stores a huge amount of stuff in /etc

[Jordi Mallach]

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reassign 258704 gconf2
thanks

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:18:34PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On a system with gnome from sid /etc/gconf is 34 MiB in size. Is there a
> strong reason why all that data is in /etc as opposed to /usr/share or
> /var/lib? I understand that this is where upstream puts it...

There is an ongoing plan to move part of this stuff to some other
locations.

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