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Re: why are gconf schemas installed into /etc



Could some creative symlinking "fix" it. Or at least get us on the track
to fixing it?

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 16:47, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Erich Schubert">
> 
> > I was just wondering, why gconf schemas are installed into /etc ?
> 
> Mistake of history.
> 
> > IMHO they should be installed into /var and not be considered conffiles.
> 
> /usr/share more likely, but yeah. Unfortunately, it can't be changed too
> easily because it would probably break things (particularly third party
> apps), and it would be a huge burden of extra work.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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