Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (174 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'd like to propose a change in the gconf configuration we're shipping
so that we don't have to patches schemas when we only want to change a
default value. Also, I'll propose a new package to ship those default
values.

This can be interesting in many ways:
 + less patches :-)
 + easy to remove the opensuse policies (just remove a package)
 + easy to create another package to ship policies for opensuse
   derivatives
 + easy to get upstream defaults

Here are the details:

 1) First, we change /etc/gconf/2/path to add a new source for the
    defaults, between the source for systemwide customizations and the
    source for upstream defaults.
    It means adding a line like this:
    "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.distro.defaults"

 2) Instead of patching schemas files to change the defaults, we create
    files for those changes and we'll have them installed in a gconf-y
    way in this new /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.distro.defaults

 3) Instead of shipping those new files in each package, we create a
    gnome-policy-openSUSE package that will ship them

I'm not 100% sure we want step 3, but it might be nice. The first two
steps should be good, though.

What do you think?

(Credits: it's implemented this way in Debian)

Vincent

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