Re: Debianizing Debian's GNOME/KDE a bit more

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

 > >  > >     1. Using the gconf method isn't good enough because some users
 > >  > >        won't see the changes (because they have made changes
 > >  > >        themselves)
 > >  > 
 > >  > No, wrong. I've never said that.
 > >
 > >  You _are_ pulling my leg, right?
 > >
 > >  Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:08:06 +0100
 > >  Message-ID: <[🔎] 87wuagec21.fsf@falcon.wanadoo.fr>
 > >
 > >     First setting a gconf key will be only useful for new user. If you
 > >     change a gconf key in the postinst this will change nothing in users
 > >     configurations and users will lost nothing. The good approach is to
 > >     use update-alternative as the current desktop-base do.
 > 
 > Where are you readind that I wrote the folowing ?
 > 
 >  "(because they have made changes themselves)"

 Oh, *please*

 If changing the schema doesn't affect the user's configuration, it
 _means_ the user made a local change.  You do know how the packages you
 maintain work, don't you?

 Marcelo