On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:46:14PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
>
> > I don't see Gnome as a package. GConf is a package, libgnome is a package,
> > Gnome is a Suite of packages.
>
> That's true AFAICT. In fact, I was looking at the Gnome sources
> yesterday at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ and there are about
> 650 packages.
>
> I would think a Gnome user (generally not me) would want to look for
> configuration files for all the related gnome packages that have config
> files in the same place. If there is only one config file, I'd think it
> would be:
>
> /etc/gnome/pkg1.cfg
>
> If there were more than one,
>
> /etc/gnome/pkg2/file1.cfg
> /etc/gnome/pkg2/file2.cfg
>
> and so forth. At least that's how I'd like to be able to look for
> config files. It's the way apache, samba, ssl, kde, and even joe works.
>
> -- Bruce
On my partial-gnome installation (apart from the gnome2 packages
previously mentioned, I built gcalctool, gucharmap,
epiphany{,-extensions}, gstreamer/plugins, totem, yelp from 3.2 -
plus their many required dependencies) I have the following
directories in /etc/gnome:
bonobo-activation, dbus-1, gconf, gnome-vfs-2.0, profile.d, sound,
xdg. These are not just conf,desktop,xml files - there are also
schemas and other odds and sods. But as long as each goes into a
directory, what does it matter ? Using /etc rather than /etc/gnome
looks much more straightforward. Also, if you are a gnome user
(i.e. a much fuller gnome than I build), what does it gain you by
putting all these directories into /etc/gnome instead of /etc ?
I do have *one* file in /etc/gnome : gnome-vfs-mime-magic from
gnome-mime-data (I installed that for totem, if I recall correctly).
Since there are other packages which dump files straight into /etc
(even e2fsprogs in lfs itself) I don't see this as a problem.
Having said that, I've noticed that distros such as gentoo put the
dhclient files in a directory (conf, -exit-hooks) but BLFS has
always been happy to drop these into /etc so I haven't felt any
overwhelming urge to alter the client script so that it would find
the moved hooks.
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