On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:13, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > when discussing some of the tools available for customized configuration > of packages on the freegeek distro list, the question was essentially > posed: where does gconf fit in? > my limited understanding is that you can tweak existing configuration > files with it. can you add additional configuration files (like with > run-parts dirs)? how do upgrades handle gconf customizations? i suppose > there are different ways to use gconf might fit into different > categories. > > i'm not very familiar with gconf in general, but i'm curious. it's possible as gconf allows you to use a different number of 'configuration sources' (sets of settings) with a priority order between the different settings (in case of the same setting being specified by different configuration sources the value of the set with the highest priority is used). So what you want to do is add in another configuration source with your settings at the right priority. The big problem is that the list of configuration sources to use, and priority of those sources is controlled by a single configuration file (/etc/gconf/2/path) controlled by the gconf2 package. That package currently doesn't provide a way to add in extra configuration sources or control the priority of those sources (other then messing with the conffile). The package desktop-profiles provides a cross-desktop way to control the addition/activation/priority of configuration sets (profiles) (a standard way to do this is needed to allow the combination of different configuration sets, e.g. from different CDD's) -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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