Bug#227726: marked as done (gconf: takes too much space in /etc)

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Package: gconf
Version: 1.0.9-5.1
Severity: normal

Sorry if I already reported this, I cannot find it in the DTS.

gconf takes far too much space in the /etc directory.  Space is an
issue, because the root file system may be (and is, in my case) hosted
on a small partition.

On my system, gconf takes over 3MB of space, and is the first in terms
of size, followed by X11 with little less than 3MB.  All the others
occupy less than 1MB, and only 20 occupy more than 100KB.

This happens even if I only use very few programs that are administered
by gconf.

Moreover, the directories under /etc/gconf are written automatically,
that is, they are not user configuration files, which means that they
should go somewhere else.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pot.isti.cnr.it 2.4.22 #1 Wed Oct 22 11:28:26 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages gconf depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb3                      3.2.9-19     Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii  libgconf11                  1.0.9-5.1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib1.2                  1.2.10-9     The GLib library of C routines
ii  liboaf0                     0.6.10-3     The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii  liborbit0                   0.5.17-9     Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libxml1                     1:1.8.17-4   GNOME XML library
ii  oaf                         0.6.10-3     The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

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Subject: GConf now only uses /etc for configuration
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As of version 2.10.1-2, GConf can now use only /etc for its own
configuration, and for system administrator defaults.

There are a few remaining packages putting their schemas
in /etc/gconf/schemas, and bugs were reported against all of them.

There are still many packages shipping their defaults
in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, but all they need is a rebuild using
debhelper >=3D 4.9.8.1. Please file bug reports against these packages if
you feel it is appropriate.

Regards,
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