Bug#310065: requesting change to default path file/managing configuration sources with desktop-profiles

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 21 mai 2005 =E0 13:55 +0200, cobaco a =E9crit :
> Package: gconf2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
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> I've made a package called desktop-profiles, that recently entered Debian=
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> The purpose of this package is to manage the conditional activation of=20
> profiles for the different desktop environments in Debian. Where profiles=
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> are sets of configuration and/or data files (i.e. configuration sets in=20
> gconf terminology, or base-dirs in freedesktop terminology).
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> To make this work with gconf (and thus Gnome) the default system-wide pat=
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> file needs to be changed, I'll explain the reasoning and needed changes=20
> below.

Please stop the madness. There's already a package which wants to modify
the path based on other things. If we go on this way, the gconf
configuration files will become a complete mess.

Post-sarge, we will have to re-think the path file to bear with the
system defaults moving to /var/lib. This will be the time to deal with
such packages. I think the best way is to split it into
a /etc/gconf/path.d directory, where packages can add their files.
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